I think you want the last function.

my $match = 0;   # We haven't got a match yet.

while ($lines = <PSWD>){
   ($user,$pswd,$userID,$groupID,$info,$home,$shell) = split ':', $lin
+es;

   if ($username eq $user) {
      print "Checking username... MATCH\n";     
      if ($passwd eq $pswd){
         print "Checking password... MATCH\n";
      }
      else {
         print "Password does not match!\n";
      }
      $match = 1; # We have found a match
      last;       # So stop looping already!
   }
}

unless ($match) {
   print "\"$username\" does not match any users in our database!\n";
}

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Update: I have also moved that else outside of the loop as an unless block.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

In reply to Re: Checking username and password but cant break whileloop! by tobyink
in thread [SOLVED] Checking username and password but cant break whileloop! by jaffinito34

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