Greatings and thanks for reading this! I run a free classifieds site and with the help of a friend, have added a few subroutines that create a new counter file that is named after the ad number (34.txt) and has a value of 0 to start. Now that all works fine, but ads posted prior to mods do not have a counter file. Rather than creating a new text file with a value of 0 for each ad (BIG JOB!), I thought I could write a script to do this for me. The script is supposed to:
  1. open the ads file
  2. flock it
  3. read each line into an array
  4. take just the first part of the array (the ad number), and create a new file for each, with a value of 0
  5. chmod each file to 0666
  6. close the ad file
  7. chmod it to 0666
  8. tell me that it is done
Here is the stuff:
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $adfile = '/home/ebrae2/adskingston-www/cgi-bin/ebrae/data/ads.data
+';
my $hits_dir = '/home/ebrae2/adskingston-www/cgi-bin/ebrae/hits/';

open(FILE, $adfile) || die "Can't open $adfile";

flock FILE, 2;

while ($line = <FILE>) {
  chomp $line;
  
  my @counter_file = split(/\|/,$line);
    
  open (HITS_FILE, ">$hits_dir/$counter_file[0].txt") || die "Can't op
+en $adfile";
      ("$hits_dir/$counter_file[0].txt");
    print HITS_FILE "0";
    close (HITS_FILE);
  
if ($os eq "unix") { chmod 0666, "$hits_dir/$$counter_file[0].txt"; }
    
  }
  
  close FILE;
  
  if ($os eq "unix") { chmod 0666, "$adfile"; }
  
  print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
  
  print "<BR><CENTER>";
  print "<form><input type=button value=\"Success!\" onClick=\"locatio
+n.href('http://www.adskingston.com')\"></FORM>";

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I am new to this and know that there are probably some bugs. It does work, but only if there are 2 $$'s side by side on line 22, when I am telling it to flock each file it creates. AND, when I am connected via FTP (WS_FTP), run the script, and then try to open the "hits" folder, it doesn't show the new files, it hangs until I hit refresh... but it doesn't seem to be doing this for any other directories. Thought maybe it was just a fluke that the server was slowing down everytime I was trying to open that directory, maybe it is... the possibilities are endless!!!! Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks! Edited by boo_radley for formatting

In reply to using loop/array to write files by ginocapelli

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