Re: Quick and dirty counter

[merlyn]

This is quick, dirty, and faulty. You are not getting exclusive access to the file, so if multiple hits come in at roughly the same time, someone will zero the file while someone else is reading it, and your counter will "reset". It's not a matter of "if", but "when".

What problems did you have with File::CounterFile? That would be more instructive to bring out than to rewrite it (and incorrectly!).

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[cecil36]

The purpose of the counter is not for use with a web page. I created it for personal use with a script that I found and modified that tracks packages shipped via UPS. The output is an ASCII file that is sent to a pager program to send to a pager. The counter is used to put a file extension on the text file output prior to writing the output to the file.