K Clark wrote: > > Here's what i have, and here's the problem. and here's what i 'think' i > have to learn/do to fix it: > > #/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > # > # script to randomly choose a song > # and embed html with a link to it > # > my @mp3 = glob("/www/mp3/*.mp3"); > # > # put while statement > my $mp3 =~ s#.*/##;
$mp3 and @mp3 are different variables so the previous statement is doing a substitution on an empty variable. ( my $mp3 = $mp3[rand @mp3] ) =~ s#.*/##; > srand; > print "http://www.quantifier.org/mp3" . "$mp3[rand(@mp3)]"; print "http://www.quantifier.org/mp3/$mp3"; > # end John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]