hello. im making a instant messenger program for my teen community online.

lets say "ultimatedbz" sends a message to lets say "vegeta". It'll create a file with ultimatedbz's message named "imultimatedbz" in directory /members/vegeta.

There is a frame where refreshes the page every 10 seconds to check if he new messages. When there is a new message it opens the directory and prints out the message from ultimate dbz. 

if (-e glob("$free_path/$Account::cata_acc/_data/messages/im*")) {

opendir(MESSAGE, "$free_path/$Account::cata_acc/_data/messages/");
@messages = grep !/\.\.?/, readdir MESSAGE;
closedir (LOGDIR);

foreach $message  (@messages) {

($im,$from) = split(/im/, $message);

print <<EOF;
trim=window.open("http://www.teen-reality.com/cgi-bin/members/trim.cgi
+?account=$Account::cata_acc&session=$Account::session&action=main&fro
+m=$from&what=newim","","width=180,height=350")
trim.creator=self
EOF

}#foreach $messages

}#if -e glob im  check if ne im messages
#done checking

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Now the $from returns a value of "ult" instead of ultimatedbz. Now this is the first time it happend and before, when I try it out by vegeta sending a message to vegeta, it returns a value of "vegeta"

I think it's something dealing with the length of characters in the file name?

Thank you
Dave

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