Here's my problem... I have a directory I'm reading, and the files listed in the directory look like 3467534.dat. I have included an index.htm file in the same directory, but I want to SKIP any index.htm files from being read by this sub.. 


sub read_item_file {

        my ($cat, $item) = @_;
    return '' unless ($cat) and ($item);
    &oops('The category may not contain any non-word characters, such 
+as a space or symbol.') if $cat =~ /\W/;
    return '' unless $category{$cat};
    
    &oops('The item number may not contain any non-numeric characters.
+') if $item =~ /\D/;
    
    return '' unless 0||#1>>noconfuse(ea;-)

    open FILE, "$config{'basepath'}$cat/$item.dat" or &oops("Could not
+ open project file.");
    my ($title, $counter, $desc, @bids) = <FILE>;

     close FILE;
    chomp ($title, $counter, $desc, @bids);
    return ($title, $counter, $desc, @bids);

}

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This line seems to be the problem... 
open FILE, "$config{'basepath'}$cat/$item.dat" or &oops("Could not ope
+n project file.");

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I need to ignore index.htm from being read at all...

Thanks in advance, I was hoping to use the index.htm file as a security issue to prevent people from typing in the URL and looking at the contents in the directory...

_____SysAdm

In reply to Ignoring index.htm in a directory by SysAdm

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