...

opendir(FOO, "/bar/baz");

my @files = readdir FOO;

closedir FOO;

foreach my $file (@files){

  chomp $file;

  die $predefined_die_msg if $file =~ /^file_name$/i;

}

...

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Make sure that, before outputting any error messages to the browser, you print an HTML header. The die/warn message will be printed to the browser if this is going to be run as a CGI.

Update: Even though this is the most IO-intensive 'solution' to the problem, and definitely the longest to execute, it still works, in a caveman kinda way. :) Added line start/line end boundaries to the regex, and chomped that thang. 
#-------------
perl -e 's=$;$/=$\;W=i;$\=$/;s;;XYW\\U$"\;\);sig,$_^=$[x5,print;'

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in thread Is the file there? by Ahbeyra

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