here is the error.log output

Berik it didnt work either 
[Sun Feb 08 18:05:19 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not ex
+ist: /var/www/html/data, referer: http://localhost/cgi-bin/index.pl
[Sun Feb 08 18:05:19 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [Sun Feb  8 18:0
+5:19 2004] index.pl: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) 
+or string at /var/www/cgi-bin/index.pl line 30., referer: http://loca
+lhost/

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also this is line 30 
open(IN, "<$file") or die $!;</code?
<br>
i cant understand why its not working....can you?
<code>[Sun Feb 08 18:05:19 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [Sun Feb  
+8 18:05:19 2004] index.pl:  at /var/www/cgi-bin/index.pl line 30., re
+ferer: http://localhost/

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BazB added code tags

In reply to Re: Re: 2 perl cgi little problems! by Nik
in thread 2 perl cgi little problems! by Nik

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