Grandfather, thank you for your reply, I appreciate it very much.

The initializations occur within the "forum.setup" file. As mentioned, this Perl new.cgi script is currently being used successfully to list the first three (3) messages within the forums specified in the script on the index.shtml web page using a SSI include statement. The script pulls information from a Perl-based forum software which uses ASCII database files (actual fields are shown in the code for reference purposes), not MySQL or any other database, and will be using this software in the future.

To clarify, I need help in the additional FOR or IF statements which are needed to properly select the moderator(s) records from the three ASCII databases (education, history, and news forums) which this script opens and searches through.

I hope to find a coding solution to this problem. Thank you again for your message.

Zoro

In reply to Re^2: Configuring a Perl script to extract certain records from an ASCII file by the-Zoro
in thread Configuring a Perl script to extract certain records from an ASCII file by the-Zoro

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