Hello, I am working on a cgi program that lists multiple flat, text db from which you can add/remove/view information. I'm trying to figure out how to add a "count" of how many line entries are in each category file. (ie. Cat: Biology Books - 11 entries) Example of the categories list looks like this: 
art.gif=ArtsDance=The Arts - Dance

    $index=0;
    foreach $cat (@catagories) {
        @line_pair = split(/=/,$cat);
        $catagorypicture = $line_pair[0];
        $catagorylink = $line_pair[1];
        $catagorydescription= $line_pair[2];
        print "<a href=\"$cgidir/classifieds.cgi?catagory=$catagorylin
+k\" ><img src=\"$htmldir/$catagorypicture\" border=0 align=center> <B
+>$catagorydescription</B></a><br>";
        $index++;
        if ($index==3) {
            $index=0;

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And the individual categories that I would like a "count" for look like this: 
            open(DATAFILEIN,"$catagory.dat") || print "This section is
+ currently empty...Please check back often!";
            print "<table border=1 width=\"95%\">";
            while (<DATAFILEIN>) {
                chomp $_;
                @line_pair = split(/=/,$_);
                $time = $line_pair[0];
                $name = $line_pair[1];
                $email= $line_pair[2];
                $phone= $line_pair[3];
                $subject= $line_pair[4];
                $data= $line_pair[5];
                $time2 = $line_pair[6];
                $data = &stripBadHtml($data);
                $password= $line_pair[8];
                $pictureurl= $line_pair[7];
                $priceline= $line_pair[9];

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Any help would be greatly appreciated...Lis

In reply to Adding an entry count for each DB by lisaw

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