variable changes in foreach loop, but I need it to stay changed.

[Super Sonic]

I have a foreach loop. Every time it loops over, a variable is increased by one. But then the next time it loops, the variable had been reset to its original state before the loop. I need the variable that is incremented in the loop to stay so even outside the loop.

[Unit]

some code segment showing what you are trying to do and what's happening would be useful.

[Super Sonic]

foreach (@UPLOADS) {
$upload_counter++;
my $out_filename = "FullShot$upload_counter";

open (OUTFILE, ">$out_filename");
while ($bytesread = read ($_, $buffer, 1024)) {
print OUTFILE $buffer;
}
close $_;
Close OUTFILE;
}

Notice that each time the foreach loop runs, $upload is increased. Each time a new element goes through the loop, $upload_counter is reset to how it was before the loop occured (that's just perl). Now, I'm using 5 upload fields. @UPLOADS is an array of the variables storing the names of the files to uploaded. Each of the five files will save to a file 'FullShot(1-5)'

At the moment, when It runs, it successfully saves one upload to FullShot1, the rest of them are saved to CGITEMP files.

[dswimboy]

trying setting $upload_counter equal to one, before your loop.

or rather zero, since you're incrementing it first.

[Super Sonic]

I just tried.
:( same thing happens.

[dswimboy]

try this code:

foreach $upload (@UPLOADS) {
$upload_counter++;
$out_filename = "FullShot$upload_counter";

open (OUTFILE, ">$out_filename");
open (INFILE, "<$upload");
while ($bytesread = read(INFILE, $buffer, 1024)) {
print OUTFILE $buffer;
}
close INFILE;
close OUTFILE;
}