Damn cookies. *giggle*

You have several options here.

1. Have the name of the file contain the date.
2. Have the date as the first line of the file. If the dates are different, remove the file.
3. Have the perl script accept the poll's name from a form hidden. Search only that file.

Of these options, I like the last one best. This will allow you to accurately track the results of your polls. (as a back up to the main mechanisim.) And it would allow you to keep up past polls. And you could leave a poll up for longer than a day.

Crulx