It still add record that it found on the first pass though the while loop to my database what I need is some way to mark my file to the point that it get to so it will not find a dupluted of the some record as the file grows. ant ideas on how I do that. On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 8:30 pm, Rob Dixon wrote: > Rob Dixon wrote: > > sub alert > > { > > seek FILEIN, 0, SEEK_SET; > > > > while( <filein> ) > > Of course, that should be > > while (<FILEIN>) > > > { > > # does some thing on pattern matching > > } > > } > > Rob
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