Reading from an appended file

Lhamo_rin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Reading from an appended file by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Oct 17, 2005 at 13:38 UTC
Once you reach the end of the file, you can call tell to get the offset to eof. Then when you reopen the file, seek to that point and read on. Assumes your program runs continuously. Store the value somewhere if not. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Reading from an appended file by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 17, 2005 at 13:39 UTC
Hi Lhamo_rin, The module File::Tail may be of use to you. You can set an interval of 600 seconds so that the file would be read every 10 minutes for new lines. Hope this helps. Martin	[reply]
Re: Reading from an appended file by blazar (Canon) on Oct 17, 2005 at 13:39 UTC
This is another faq in just a few minutes. Well, sort of: in any case you may be interested in checking what `perldoc -q tail` has to tell you. To quote from it: `First try seek(GWFILE, 0, 1); The statement "seek(GWFILE, 0, 1)" doesn't change the current position +, but it does clear the end-of-file condition on the handle, so that the next <GWFILE> makes Perl try again to read something.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Reading from an appended file by gopalr (Priest) on Oct 17, 2005 at 13:44 UTC
Hi Please take a look at File::Slurp Module. `use File::Slurp; use strict; my $text = read_file( 'de.txt' ) ;` [download] Thanks Gopal.R	[reply] [d/l]