Because I need to do it similarly to tail.
using just the while, the loop will exit at the end of the file. I need it to wait at the end of the file untill new data is appended to the end of it.
-- Chris.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chris Knipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: expensive loops
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:10 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:Hi,
open (LOG, '<'.LogFile); for (;;) { while (<SQUIDLOG>) { # Do stuff here } } }
Why wouldn't you just use:
open(LOG, "<".LogFile); while (<LOG>) { # Do stuff here }
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