Monks, I'm using the following to create filenames. I was originally grabbing the first 3 words of the title but for SEO reasons, I want to grab the entire title, no matter how long. I commented out the 3 and made it 12, but now I end up with titles that have trailing dashes. If the title is 3 words long, I get a title separated by dashes, with 9 trailing dashes at the end. Where am I going wrong? 
       @words = split (/ /, $titleclean);
        $filename = $year."-".$mon;
        #for ($i=0; $i<3; $i++) {
        for ($i=0; $i<12; $i++) {
            $filename = $filename."-".$words[$i];
        }
        $filename = $filename.".html";

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Thanks. UPDATE: I ended up doing this. Is there a better way? 
    $filename =~ s/ /-/gi;
    $filename =~ s/--//gi;
    $filename =~ s/-\.html/\.html/gi;

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In reply to Creating filenames by htmanning

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