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in thread I need some beginners help

Well, I'll assume that you put in the <br>'s yourself; you don't have to; <code> is like <pre>.

Anyway, the code itself looks good, although I would suggest chomp instead of chop, but that is fairly minor. One thing that is important to realize is that string comparisons are case dependent, so if you type "randal", it will not be equal to "RANDAL". I would guess that is the most likely cause of your problem. If not, come on back an let us know.

Oh yeah, and Welcome!
Scott

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Re: Re: Re: Re: I need some beginners help
by betsyt (Initiate) on Aug 07, 2001 at 00:41 UTC
    well I changed the chop to chomp and used all caps in randal but still just says hello randal ?? Betsy
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      Betsy,

      See dragonchild's post--he was dead on. I can't believe I didn't see that your variable names were different. As a side note, had you been using #!/usr/bin/perl -w you would have gotten a warning about the variable names; that is why dragonchild suggests getting in the habit of using it.

      Scott

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