Dear PerlMonks, Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I have a perl script that accesses a flat file db that simply lists a company name($company), company url($url), and company directory($directory). I want to be able to open a second flat file db that contains the company name and a subdirectory link and list it below the matching company. Like this: 
Company 1
   -Company 1 sub link 1
   -Company 1 sub link 2
Company 2
   -Company 2 sub link 1
Here's my code: 
{
&directories;
}

sub directories
{
$database="company_file.dat";
 open(FILE, $database) || die "can't open";
 @list = <FILE>;
 close(FILE);
 $numlist = @list;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<"EOF";
Company Listings:
EOF
 for ($a = 0; $a < $numlist; $a ++)
         {
         ($company, $url, $directory) = split(/\|/, $list[$a]);
           print "$company, $url, $directory<BR>\n";
         }
 close(FILE);
}
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My subdirectory flat file db contains: 
$company, $sub-url, $sub-directory, $sub-maindir

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Any suggestions...or links to existing examples would be greatly appreciated... lis

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