Hi Cody, (I have taken everything you stated and applied it to the code with the best of my abilities). If you should copy this code into a new cgi named viewdir.cgi & then fill in the 2 paths needed you could see it displays all folders in the specified dir and just fails to filter the seclected value"" when selected. I really like the things you've shown me thus far and I hope this complete code below will assist you better with answering my filtering question. Thank you so much for your valued time! Jim tf198@netzero.net 
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

$viewdirpath = "/home/your_site_id/www/folder_chosen_to_view";
$viewdirpath_only = "http://www.your_url.com/folder_chosen_to_view";
$script = "http://www.your_url.com/folder_chosen/viewdir.cgi";

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

&view_dir;

sub view_dir {
opendir DIR, "$viewdirpath";
@$_ = readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;

$count = 0;
foreach $_ ( sort @$_ ) {
$fitem_pathname = "$viewdirpath" . "/" . "$_";
if (-e $fitem_pathname  && -d $fitem_pathname) {
unless ($_ eq ".." || $_ eq ".") {$count++;}}}

print "<body bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"text=\"#000000\" link=\"#000000\ vlink
+=\"#000000\ alink=\"#000000\>";
print "<b>Folders Listed In Directory - $count</b><br>";
print "<form name=\"sortbyform\" action=\"viewdir.cgi\" method=\"GET\"
+>";
print "sort by<br>";

print "<select name=\"sortby\" onChange=\"if (sortbyform.sortby != \''
+) { sortbyform.submit(); }\">";
print "<option value=\"\">Select</option><br><br>";

foreach $sortby (@file = (a..z)) {
if ($FORM{'sortby'} eq $sortby) { print "<option value=\"$sortby\" SEL
+ECTED>$sortby</option>";}
else { print "<option value=\"$sortby\">$sortby</option>";}
}

print "</select>";
print "</form>";

foreach $_ ( sort @$_ ) {
$fitem_pathname = "$viewdirpath" . "/" . "$_";
if (-e $fitem_pathname  && -d $fitem_pathname) {
unless ($_ eq ".." || $_ eq "." || $_ eq "admin") {
if($_ =~ m/^$FORM{'sortbyform'}/i) {
print "<br><a href=$viewdirpath_only/$_>$_</a>";}}}
}
}
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edited: Mon Jan 27 15:13:20 2003 by jeffa - added code tags

In reply to Re: Re: sorting a text file in PERL using a dropdown form by Anonymous Monk
in thread sorting a text file in PERL using a dropdown form by Anonymous Monk

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