Monks, I'm stumped. I'm using the following to take a record title and create a filename from the title. It works but if the title has more than 8 words the filename ends up being short, and without the .html. I cannot seem to find where this is breaking down. If the title is shorter than 8 words it works fine, but 9 words and it fails.

The filename should be something like: 2018-09-25-this-is-a-sample-title.html.

I also do some checking to see if the filename is already used and add a "2" to the end of the filename.

$base_title = $title;
$base_title =~ s/[^\w| ]/ /g;    #Remove non-alphanumeric characters a
+nd replace them with spaces
$base_title =~ s/ {2,}/ /g;    #remove multiple spaces
$add_date = $dateadded;       
            
    @words = split (/ /, $base_title);
    $filename = $dateadded."-" . join("-",@words) . ".html";
               
    $filename_base = $filename;
    $filename_base =~ s/\.html//g;

    # check to see if filename is being used
    $SQL = "SELECT * FROM $database_table WHERE filename = '$filename'
+";
    &Do_SQL;
    $i=2;
    while ($pointer = $sth->fetchrow_hashref){
        $filename = $filename_base."$i.html";
        $i++;
        $SQL = "SELECT * FROM $database_table filename = '$filename'";
        &Do_SQL;
    }
    
       
        
        $SQL = "INSERT INTO $database_table (filename)     VALUES ('fi
+lename')";
        &Do_SQL;
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Any help would be appreciated. It might be simple, but I'm stumped. Thanks!