I've got the part down now with removing certain elements from an array, and i've read around on other ways to the same thing, but what I am stuck with now is that the directory contents are read into an array the array is filtered of . .. and the scripts name. What then i need to do is have the remaining elements (or all of them if it should be done before filtering) sorted into two other arrays; @files @directories.

brainstorming I figured sorting according to if the element has a "." in it (index.html vs /protected)

Here's my code. Help if you can or point me to where i can read how to do it! :) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

opendir(DIR,"./") || die print "Couldn't open directory";
my @unsfiles = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

@files = sort(@unsfiles);

my $filename = __FILE__;

my @noshow = (".", "..", $filename);

print <<html;
<html>
 <body>
  <div style=\"{
border: solid 1 #003366;
background: #F1F1F1;
text-align: left;
padding: 4px;
width: 200px;
}\">
html

foreach $f (@files)
{
  unless (grep /$f/, @noshow)
  {
   print "<a style=\"{font-size: 13px; color: #000000;\"} href=\"./rea
+d_file.cgi?file=$f\">$f</a><br>\n";
  }
}

print <<html2;

  </div>
 </body>
</html>
html2

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I know people are telling me not to use die print "", but is there another way for the die error to print to the screen when viewed by an internet browser (IE) ? thanks all!

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