I have managed to get this search engine to work on my site but when you type in a keyword which does not appear within the site you just get a blank screen response. I want to give a response of Sorry was unable to match you response or something along those lines. It would be great if someone could help me solve this problem. Here is the code below.

Thanks

bobbyboy

#!/usr/bin/perl5


require "get_form_data.pl";
&get_form_data();

$search_term = $FORM{'search'};

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

opendir(DIR, ".");
while($file = readdir(DIR))
{
    next if($file !~ /.html/);
    open(FILE, $file);
    $found_match = 0;
    $title = "";
    while(<FILE>)
    {
        if(/$search_term/i)
        {
            $found_match = 1;
        }
        if((/<TITLE>/) || ($found_title))
        {
            if((/<\/TITLE>/) && (/<TITLE>/))            {
                chop;
                $title = $_;
                $title =~ s/<TITLE>//g;
                $title =~ s/<\/TITLE>//g;
            }
            else
            {
                if($found_title == 1)
                {
                    $title = $_;
                    $found_title = 2
                }
                elsif($found_title == 2)
                {
                    $found_title = 0;
                }
                else
                {
                    $found_title = 1;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    if($found_match)
    {
        print "<A HREF=\"$file\">$title</A>\n";
        print "<BR>\n";
    }
    
    close(FILE);
}

closedir(DIR);

exit;

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Edited 2001-04-03 by mirod: added <code> tags

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