View logged in via web page. [Parse Text log, Effecient Loops with waits] (Solved)

[TheVoid]

Ok let me see if i can describe this quickly.

I am working with the Never Winter Nights tool set. We wanted to make a small program to monitor who logs on and off the server so we can display it on the web page.

NeverWinter Nights (NWN) when running the server version writes a complete logg to a txt file. What i am getting at is what is the Best/most effecient/ or easiest way to get this information.

Obviously the program writes to the text file every time something happens, we can see that happening. Is there a way to listen on the program for when it writes, then analyze the string and get the information that way.

I know I can write a quick program to read through the text file and analyze the log ins and offs and determine who is logged in that way. But there has to be a more efficient and much easier way of doing it.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for all the help and ideas.

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