hi guys, i'm a newbie in PERL and trying to figure out how to rotate images in HTML. the code below is supposed to rotate the images read from a flat database file. the flat db format is: 

1|/pics/boy.gif|http://www.b.com|internal
2|/pics/gal.gif|http://www.g.com|partner
3|/pics/gol.gif|http://www.f.com|payed

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the code will open the flat db file and prints the image depending on the type of the image (internal,partner,or payed). the problem is the code does not rotate the images it only prints out the last image found. here's the piece of my code and see if you can fix it.... i know this is a very lame code so no flames pls. 

 if(!open DAT, "ads.dat") {
    print "Error: cannot open data file!\n";
    exit 1;
  } else {

    @imgdata=<DAT>;
    foreach $c (@imgdata) {
    ($id,$image,$url,$type)=split(/\|/,$c);

      if ($type=~/^internal|partner$/) {
          srand(time() ^ ($$ + ($$ << 15)) );
          @imgs = ($image);
          $img  = $imgs[int(rand($#imgs+1))];
          print "Location: $img\n\n";
        }
     }
  }
}

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thanks in advance.

In reply to Printing Random Image in HTML by damian

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