check before insert

[ssss]

I'm new to perl but i've managed to create a perl script that adds values from a html form to a text file, which works fine. The next step is to stop duplicate username's from being created. Is there a way of searching the text file before inserting?

Thanks

[Charles]

It's easily done, but we need to know how your text file is laid out.

[ssss]

ok the perl scripts adds it like this:

print txt "-----------------------------------\n";
print txt "$FORM{'Forename'}\n";
print txt "$FORM{'Surname'}\n";
print txt "$FORM{'Email'}\n";
print txt "$FORM{'Login'}\n";
print txt "Password: $Password\n";

The text file stores data like this:

-----------------------------------
forename
surname
forname.surname@domain.com
forname.surname
Password: 75563844