Monks, I'm using the following to create filenames from article titles. I look through the database to find if the filename exists, then add a 2 to the end of the filename (filename2.html) if it does. BUT, this only works on the first duplicate. What if there are 3 titles that are the same. Is there a better way to do this? 
           
    @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!

In reply to Avoiding duplicate filenames by htmanning

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