Hello, I am working on a script that will enable a user to remove files from a fixed directory. I have been able to get the script to list all of the files in a certain $location and allow the the client to check the files that need to be removed, but for some reason it only removes the last "checked" file. Here's what I'm working with: 
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); 
@pairs=split(/&/,$buffer); 
foreach $pair (@pairs) { 
    ($name, $value)=split(/=/,$pair); 
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value=~s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
    $f{$name}=$value; 
    chomp($f{$name});
}

print "<tr><td bgcolor=#CCCCCC><b>&nbsp;File Removal</b></td></tr></ta
+ble>";

if(($f{'action'} eq "delete")&&(open(FILE,$f{'file'}))){
    unlink($f{'file'})||print "<h1>Could Not Delete: ".$f{'file'}."</h
+1>";
}
$dir=$f{'dir'} if $f{'password'} eq $password;
opendir(DIR,$dir);
@files=readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
@files=sort(@files);

print "Directory Content:";

$i=0;
foreach    $file(@files){
    if((!opendir(TEST,$dir."/".$file))&&($f{'password'} eq $password)&
+&($file ne ".")&&($file ne "..")){
        $i++;
        print "<input type=checkbox name=file value=\"".$dir."/".$file
+;
        if($i==1){
            print "\" checked>";
        }else{
            print "\">";
        }
        print $file."<BR>\n";
    }
}
print "<input type=hidden name=dir value=\"".$location."\">\n";

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Any suggestions on how to remove multiples files instead of just one at a time? Thanks! Lisaw

In reply to Deleting Multiple Files by lisaw

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