Hi, I'm writing a little ban routine for a message board. I am having trouble with the subroutine to remove banned ip. My code removes the bad IP entry and all values below it. I am storing the values in a text file. All help gratefully received. I am very new to Perl so would appreciate a simple reply :) 

#!/usr/bin/perl


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

& read_input;

$bad_ip = $FORM{'banip'} ;

unless ($bad_ip =~ /^\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+$/) {


 print "<font face=Verdana size=2>That IP looks Invalid!";
 print"<br><br>\n";
 print "<div align = center><a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1)\">Go B
+ack and Try Again</a></div>";

  exit;

}

unless (-e "ip.txt") {print "There are no banned IP's<br>";

exit;

}

 open (IP, "<ip.txt");
 @ip= <IP>;
 close (IP);
 open (IP, ">ip.txt");
 foreach $_(@ip) {
 chomp $_;
 if (/$bad_ip/) {next};
 chomp$_;
 print IP "$_\n";
 close (IP);

 }




 print "All Done!<br>";
 print"<br><br>\n";
 print "<div align=center><a href=cp.htm>Back to the menu here</a>";




sub read_input {

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {
  read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
} else {
  $buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
}
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
  ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
  $name =~ tr/+/ /;
  $name =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
  $value =~ tr/+/ /;
  $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
  $FORM{$name} = $value;
}

   }

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