I need a perl script to read the following message from log file

WARNING: Child is hung for request

Perl script should have the following conditions

It should look log file located in specific location (example /mylog) and read "WARNING: Child is hung for request" (Without quotes) message continuously in 50 lines if this exceeds more than 50 lines send an email to example@example.com and write to a file (name error.log) in specific location (/mylogs/error.log)

This script should run in linux

One more important thing is logfile is very large so from this link http://oreilly.com/catalog/cookbook/chapter/ch08.html

We have to use this in our script

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I tried the following script but it is not working as i expected

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Net::SMTP;

## Declare variables ##

my $logFile="/xxxx/x.log";
my $outputFile="/xxxx/output.log";
my $Subject="xxxx Error";

## Open input and output files ##

open(LOG,"$logFile") or die "Unable to open logfile:$!\n";
open(OUT,">$outputFile") or die "Unable to open output file:$!\n";

## Call functions ##
&logFilter();
#&sendMail();

## Function to send out mail ##
sub sendMail
{

$msg = new MIME::Lite;

$msg->build(

      Type =>'text',
      Path =>"cat $outputFile |",
      ReadNow => 1

);

      $msg->add(From =>"<email>");
      $msg->add(To =>"$ARGV[0];");
      $msg->add(Subject => "$Subject");
      $msg->send('smtp','localhost',Debig=>1);

}

## Function to filter logs ##
sub logFilter

   {

while(<LOG>)

   {

             if(($_  =~ /WARNING: Child is hung for request/) )

    {

             next;

     }
    print OUT;

}
close(LOG);
close(OUT);
}

Thanks for your help

It should look log file located in specific location (example /mylog) and read "WARNING: Child is hung for request" (Without quotes) message continuously in 50 lines if this exceeds more than 50 lines send an email

while(<LOG>)
	{
	# increase the count when the string found otherwise reset the count value
	($_  =~ /WARNING: Child is hung for request/) ?	($count++ ): ($count =0);

	#Call the function when count greater than 50
	&sendMail if ($count > 50);
	}
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