laffingpc has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to open PDF files that are in an array without having to click any buttons. Everything I have tried has failed. Here is my code: 
        @currentfiles = sort {  uc($a)   cmp uc($b)  } @currentfiles;
        for($aa = 0; $aa <= int($#currentfiles / 1); $aa++){
                if ($currentfiles[$aa]=~ /$varname/) {            
                @allFilesList  = $currentfiles[$aa];
                print qq~
                <font color="#0000ff"><b>&#149;</b>
                <a href="$folder/$currentfiles[$aa]" target="_blank"><
+font color="#0000ff">$currentfiles[$aa]</font></a></font><br>
                ~;
                }
        }

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Instead of links I want the files to open. I don't want code, just the command that does this. Thanks

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Re: Open PDF file on load
by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 11, 2009 at 17:06 UTC
    You can't. The browser expects one document per HTTP request, and will be confused if you try to do anything else.
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Re: Open PDF file on load
by zwon (Abbot) on Aug 11, 2009 at 17:23 UTC

    Perhaps you can do it with javascript that will download and open all PDFs.

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      The problem is Javascript can't read the array. I used this 
      $filecount = @allFilesList;
         <script type="text/javascript">
          function OpenAllFiles() {
            for (i = 0; i < $filecount; i++) {
              window.open ("$folder/@allFilesList[i]", + i, "_blank");
            }
          }
          </script>

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      it just opens the first file the number of times of filecount. Thanks for the help.
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        Javascript can't read the array

        Why don't you just create n window.open(...) statements with the appropriate URIs on the Perl side, and send the resulting JS to the browser?  (wrapped in <script> tags, of course)

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