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I'm assuming that by "biggest name", you mean longest name. In that case, your problem is with $file gt $greatest. This does a string comparison of those two scalars, which is not what you want. Instead, you want to compare the length of the scalars. Do that with length($file) > length($greatest).

More generally, I'd go with something like this:

#!perl -w use strict; use CGI ":standard"; my $longest = ""; my $dir = '/data'; opendir DIR, $dir or die "Couldn't readdir $dir"; while(my $file = readdir DIR) { print "'$longest'\n"; $longest = $file if length($file) > length($longest); } closedir DIR; print header, start_html("Longest filename"), "Longest filename in '$dir' is '$longest', which has ", length($longest), ' characters.', end_html;

In reply to Re: Argh by athomason
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