Hi Everyone, I am trying to create a CGI program using Perl that creates a log file with a timestamp as the file name. I have seen the example on how to get it down to the second, however, this will be a fairly busy website and I am afraid of submits happening at the same time. Is there a way that if a file is submitted from two different users at 2007 07 23 14 41 00 that it would create 20070723144100a and 20070723144100b? I hope this makes sense. Thank you for the help in advance! This is the code I have now 
use Time::HiRes;

# grab the current time
my @now = localtime();


# rearrange the following to suit your stamping needs.
# it currently generates YYYYMMDDhhmmss
my $timeStamp = sprintf("%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d",
                        $now[5]+1900, $now[4]+1, $now[3],
                        $now[2],      $now[1],   $now[0]);

# insert stamp into constant portion of file name.
# the constant portion of the name could be included
# in the sprintf() above.
my $fileName = "simplebr_$timeStamp.txt";

print "$fileName";

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