Trying to tail / parse some log files. Entries start with a date then can span many lines.

This works, but does not ever see new entries to file.

File inputFile = new File("C:/test.txt");
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
InputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
//bis.skip(inputFile.length());
Scanner src = new Scanner(bis);
src.useDelimiter("\n2010-05-01 ");

while (true) {
    while(src.hasNext()){
    System.out.println("[ " + src.next() + " ]");
    }
}

Doesn't seem like Scanner's next() or hasNext() detects new entries to file.

Any idea how else I can implement, basically, a tail -f with custom delimiter.

ok - using Kelly's advise i'm checking & refreshing the scanner, this works. Thank you !!

if anyone has improvement suggestions plz do!

File inputFile = new File("C:/test.txt");
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
InputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
//bis.skip(inputFile.length());
Scanner src = new Scanner(bis);
src.useDelimiter("\n2010-05-01 ");

while (true) {
    while(src.hasNext()){
    System.out.println("[ " + src.next() + " ]");
    }

    Thread.sleep(50);
    if(bis.available() > 0){
    src = new Scanner(bis);
    src.useDelimiter("\n2010-05-01 ");
    }
}