It has to be ASAP Shawn......but if that's not possible, as a workaround we may also look at every half hour or something like that...
do you have any suggestions in mind? I am also unaware how to scan the directory for each of the files....like in shell i can do something like for i in 'ls -lrt *.*" Thanks, Mihir On 8/1/07, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mihir Kamdar wrote: > > Also, these input files will keep on coming from some source. So, my > perl > > file has to run continuously and pick each of the files as they come. > > How quickly does the Perl program have to process these files? ASAP, once > an hour, once a day? > > > -- > Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, > Shawn > > "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing > them." > Aristotle >