Hi all, I am new to Perl, just learn this code in Essential Web Perl5 when i summit it it will write to 1.html, 2.html or number+.html but i would like to have it write to title.html so i can look it easier ex. Title 020212 file will save as 020212.html Thanks for your help 
#!/usr/bin/perl5/perl 
&get_form_data;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
opendir(DIR, "./Data");
while($name = readdir(DIR))
    {
 next if $name !~ /^\d*.html/;
 push(@files, $name);
    }
close(DIR);
if($#files == 0)
    {
 $nextfile = "1.html";
    }

else
    {

$lastfile = $files[$#files];
$lastfile =~ s/.html//g;
$nextfile = $lastfile + 1;
$nextfile .= ".html";
    }

open(OUT, ">Data/$nextfile");
print OUT "<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n ";
print OUT "<TITLE>\n";
print OUT "$FORM{'title'}\n";
print OUT "</TITLE>\n";
print OUT "</HEAD>\n";
print OUT "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\">\n";
print OUT "<CENTER><H1>\n";
print OUT "$FORM{'heading'}\n";
print OUT "</H1></CENTER><BR>\n";
print OUT "<P>\n";
print OUT "$FORM{'body'}\n";
close(OUT);
push(@files, $nextfile);
print "<HTML>\n<BODY>\n";
foreach $file (@files)
    {
 print "<A HREF=\"Data/$file\">$file</A>\n";
 print "<BR>\n";
    }
 print "</BODY>\n</HTML>\n";
 exit;

 sub get_form_data
     {
    # Get the input
    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{ 'CONTENT_LENGTH' } );
    # Split the name-value pairs
    @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
    foreach $pair (@pairs)
    {
        ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
        # Un-Webify plus signs and %-encoding
        $value =~ tr/+/ /;
        $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
        
        $value =~ s/\0//g;
        $value =~ s/<!--(.|\n)*-->//g;
    
    $value =~s/\cM//g;
    $value =~s/\n\n/<p>/g;
    $value =~s/\n/<br>/g;
        $FORM{ $name } = $value;
    }
}

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