Hello, One last question for the day and I'll leave you alone...promice :) When writing to a flat data file what adjustments, to the following code, would be needed to skip the first line? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
    my @temp;
    open(DATAFILEIN, "$catagory.dat") || print "Your listing is the fi
+rst in this category!<br>";
    flock (DATAFILEIN, 2);
    while(<DATAFILEIN>) {
        @line_pair = split(/\|/,$_);
        $time2 = $line_pair[6];
        $currenttime = time ();
        $difference = $currenttime - $time2;
        #computing the number of seconds before it expires
        $expires = $expire_after_days * 86400;
        if($difference < $expires){
            push (@temp,$_);
        }
        
    }
    flock (DATAFILEIN, 8);
    if (open(DATAFILEOUT, ">$catagory.dat") ) {
        flock (DATAFILEOUT, 2);
        print DATAFILEOUT "$company_name|$time|$email|$member1|$member
+1phone|$data|$expiretime|$pictureurl|$password|$website|$member2|$mem
+ber2phone|$address|$citystatezip|$fax|$catlisting\n";
        print DATAFILEOUT @temp;
        userlog();
        if ($emailme eq "yes") {
            $toemail = $myemail;
            $fromemail = $email;
            emailme();
        }
        if ($emailuser eq "yes") {
            $toemail = $email;
            $fromemail = $myemail;
            emailme();
        }
        flock (DATAFILEOUT, 8);

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In reply to Skip a line by lisaw

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