Greetings,

I have been working on a small script for learning purposes and had a question about working with a array.

I am currently able to open a dir, read in the contents close the dir and foreach $_ array them and print $_ . I am using a small form hardcoded into the script that simply adds a checkbox next to each value in the array of files found. I then select which items/values I want to work with and submit the form.(it then opens a txt file and should place the selected values in it. Can someone please help me find my error, I am so close and always interested in learning more...

Thank you very much for your time~
Jim

 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
########################

$path="/home/foo/www/dir";

$location="http://mysite.com/dir";

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

########################

&Begin;

sub top {
opendir(DIR, "$path" );
@thefiles = sort(grep(/html$/, readdir(DIR)));
$count = 0;
foreach $_ ( sort @thefiles) {
$count++;
}
closedir(DIR);

print "<html>";
print "<head><title>MY SIMPLE FILE SELECTOR</title></head>";

print "<body bgcolor =\"#ffffff\" text =\"#000000\" link = \"#000000\"
+ vlink = \"#000000\" alink = \"#000000\">";

print "<center><h2>MY SIMPLE FILE SELECTOR</h2>";

print "<br><br><small><b>The following [$count] files were found in th
+e [$path] Dir.</b></small><br><br>";
print "</center><table>";
}

sub Begin {
&top;
print "<div align=\"center\"><center><table width=\"246\">";
print "<tr>";
print "<td align=\"left\" width=\"312\">";

print "<form action=\"http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi\" method=\"PO
+ST\">";
print "<li type=\"square\"><font size=\"2\"><i>Select files</i></font>
+<BR>";

      foreach $_(@thefiles) {
      $file_pathname = "$location" . "/" . "$_";
      if (-e $file_pathname) {next;}   
      $_ = "$FORM{'file'}";
    
          print "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type=\"checkbox\
+" name=\"$FORM{'file'}\" value=\"1\"><b>$_</b><br>";
}
print "<p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"create_list\" value=\"Create\"
+></p>";
print "</form>";
print "</td></tr></table></div><table>";

print "<br><A HREF=\"javascript:history.back()\">Go Back...</A></cente
+r>";
&bottom;
}

sub bottom {
print "</table><br>";
print "<small><small>$footer</small></small>";
print "</center></html>";
exit;
}

sub create_list {

open(FILE, ">list.txt");
foreach $_ (@thefiles) {
if ($_ == 1) {
print FILE "$_\n";
}
}
close(FILE);

&finished;
}

sub finished {
print "<center><h3>Finished...</h3>";
print "You selected $_</center>";
}

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