The perl code I've created is designed to accept an input (a surname) from a user via a web form, convert that into a directory and filename and then print a link to that file. Problem I'm having is checking on whether the files exists before providing the link. I am obviously making some kind of syntax mistake with the "if" statement as the program still outputs the print result even when a file doesn't exist. Here's the statement with the accompanying print statements shortened: 

sub printForm{
   @ParseFile = split //,"$FILENAME";
   $Path = "$ParseFile[0]/$ParseFile[1]/$ParseFile[2]";
   if (! -e "http://www.surnameweb.org/registry/$Path/$FILENAME") { 
      print "<p align=\"center\"><A HREF=\"http://www.surnameweb.org/r
+egistry/$Path/$FILENAME\">$CRITERIA</A>";
   }
   else{
      print "\n";
   }
}

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Wisdom shined upon this problem would be appreciated...

Thanks!
Perdrix

In reply to Checking if File Exists by Perdrix

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