Ok, I'm trying to do something very simple and I can't seem to figure out where I'm going wrong. I simply would like add a feature to my upload script and if a file with the same name already exists append a ~1 similar I guess to MSDOS 8.3, only I don't have a 8 character restriction. So here's my code, and after uploading the same file twice for some reason I get filename~3 instead of starting at ~1 like I would expect. Thanks!

if (-e <$upload_dir/$filename2>) {
    my $inc; # incrementor
    for($inc = 1; -e <$upload_dir/$filename2 . "~" . $inc>; $inc++) {
        # Check for previous incremented filenames
    }
    $filename2 = $filename2 . "~" . $inc;
}

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In reply to Overwrite file protection by Willman023

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