hrm . . . it does not seem to be working . . . perhaps some code is in order.

opendir(SONGS, 'd:\my files');
@songs = readdir(SONGS);
@songs = sort @songs;
open(LIST, ">mp3.html");

print LIST<<End_Of_Html;
Content-type: text/html
<html>
<head>
<title>My MP3's</title>
<center>
Just a note of forwarning, there are over one thousand in here, so if 
+you intend to go through the whole thing, it may take you awhile.  If
+ you want any of these, just ask and i can send it.  Unfortunately i 
+have a very small hard drive and can't fit them all on this drive.
<br>
</center>
End_Of_Html
$x = '.';
$y = '..';

for (0 .. $#array)
    {
    if (($x == $songs[$_]) or ($y == $songs[$_]))
        {
        splice (@songs, $_, 1);
        last;
        }
    }


print LIST join("<br>", @songs);

close(LIST);

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basically, i'm trying to scan the folder with my mp3 archive and make a list of all of them, but exclude the directory special charcters '.' and '..' it isn't giving me any error or anything, it just keeps including the special characters.

In reply to Re: (zdog) Re: removing x from a list by ashaman
in thread removing x from a list by ashaman

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