Thank you, the code now looks like this but the string that comes back from param('select') although valid for some reason enters the 2nd i believe if( )block: 
print header( -charset=>'utf-8' );
my $passage = param('select') || "Αρχική
+ Σελίδα!";

my @files = glob "$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}/data/text/*.txt";
my @display_files = map m{([^/]+)\.txt}, @files;
Encode::from_to($_, 'ISO-8859-7', 'utf8') for @display_files;


if ( param('select') )  {   #If user selected an item from the drop do
+wn menu
   unless ( grep { $_ eq param('select') } @display_files )   #Unless 
+user selection doesn't match one of the valid filenames within @displ
+ay_files
   {
      if( param('select') =~ /\0/ )
      {
         $passage = "*Null Byte Injection* attempted & logged!";
         print br() x 2, h1( {class=>'big'}, $passage );
      }
      if( param('select') =~ /\/\.\./ )
      {
         $passage = "*Backwards Directory Traversal* attempted & logge
+d!";
         print br() x 2, h1( {class=>'big'}, $passage );
      }

      $select = $db->prepare( "UPDATE guestlog SET passage=?, date=?, 
+counter=counter+1 WHERE host=?" );
      $select->execute( $passage, $date, $host );

      exit;
    }

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When i try to run it and select something valid i see no response though.....

Very weird, not even the usual "backward error..."

In reply to Re^9: somethign wrong with the sumbit by Nik
in thread somethign wrong with the sumbit by Nik

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