greets monks,

i am trying to use an array of filenames, and insert the contents of each pseudo-html file between an html header and footer to make a new static html page.

i was originally hopings i could use something like: 
print OUTFILE `cat $arraymember`;

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but to no avail, so far... then i decided to use the normal file handle approach, by opening the file, iterating through each line in the current file and inserting each line into my new file using a seperate filehandle, and closing each current file each time it loops. the subroutine looks like this: 
sub catfile {
   foreach (@dirarray) {
      $filepage = shift(@dirarray);
      #print TOCOUT "$filepage\n"; #debug!
      unless ($filepage eq '') {
      open (TEMPFILE, $filepage) or die "cannot open $filepage: $!\n";
      #print TOCOUT `cat $filepage`; #i wish!
      while ($newline = <TEMPFILE>) {
      print TOCOUT "$newline";
      #print "$newline"; #debug!
         }
      close (TEMPFILE);
      }
      
   }
} # end catfile

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what i'm getting is each file for output is being written the entire contents of *every* file in the array, instead of just the contents of one file. i think this is because the array i am iterating over doesn't shift like i want it to, but... there is a debug line where i try to print out the filename after each iteration of the array - this works perfectly as expected - one filename per iteration. please excuse the incredibly messy code - it's in the stages of exasperation. question, why is it opening multiple pages? is there an easier way to do this?

thanks extra muchly in advance....

edited: Wed Oct 16 16:06:01 2002 by jeffa - code tags s/<br>//g

In reply to special context of file names in array? by smallaxe

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