hi guys, newbie question. how do read a flat file sequentially? not randomly. ex. i have this flat file. 

1|/images/banners/internal/g.gif|http://www.g.com
2|/images/banners/internal/ad.gif|http://www.ad.com/privicard
3|/images/banners/promos/banner.gif|http://www.blah.com
4|/images/banners/promos/banner_o.gif|http://www.b.com

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as you can see i want to create a script that would rotate banner ads. i don't wanna randomly diplay images bec. it sometimes displays 2 images that are the same. i want to be able to display images without diplaying 2 or 3 similar images. here's my code that randomly displays images see if you guys can fix this one. 

 if(!open DAT, "ads.dat") {
    print "Error: cannot open data file!\n";
    exit 1;
  } else {
    @imgdata=<DAT>;
    close DAT;
    foreach $c (@imgdata) {
    ($id,$image,$url)=split(/\|/,$c);

      if ($type=~/^internal|partner$/) {
          push (@imgs,$image);
          push (@urls,$url);
          push (@des,$desc);
        }
      }

      $index = int(rand($#imgs+1));
      $img  = $imgs[$index];
      $link = $urls[$index];

         print qq|Set-Cookie: URL=$link\n|;
         print qq|Location:   $img\n\n|;

  }

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thanks in advance.

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