Re: Rolling over a Parser File

Make sure the filename is based on the current date and always open for each write. Something like

sub loggit {
    my @gmt  = gmtime;
    my $date = sprintf "%04d%02d%02d", $gmt[5]+1900, $gmt[4]+1, $gmt[3
+];
    my $file = "$date.log";

    open my $log, ">>", $file or die $!;
    print $log, @_;
    close $log;
}
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Re^2: Rolling over a Parser File by ahuang14 (Novice) on Aug 08, 2011 at 18:18 UTC
Right but how do I get my computer to create a new file every day? this is saying that on $date log everything to that file, which is what I want, but how does my computer know to create a new file everyday that this code can be run on?	[reply]
Re^3: Rolling over a Parser File by ahuang14 (Novice) on Aug 08, 2011 at 18:49 UTC
never mind I got it to work. Thanks alot!	[reply]

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