Hi Monks, I just want to learn how to work with hashes within subroutines. For an instance say that I want to get all the users whos ids are greater than 500 from /etc/passwd file and list thier home directories in the following manner

dave --> /x02/dave

jack --> /x02/jack

Following script would only print information pertaning to one user. 
my %UID_PATH;
my %ARR1 = uid();
foreach my $TAB (keys %ARR1) {
    print "User --> $TAB,   Value --> $ARR1{$TAB}\n";
    }
        
sub uid {
my %UID_PATH;
open (FH1, "</etc/passwd") || die "Can't Open : $!";
    while (<FH1>) {
    my %UID_PATH;
    my @UID = split (/:/, $_);
        if ($UID[2] > 500) {
         my $USER = "$UID[0]";
                %UID_PATH = ("$USER" => "$UID[5]");
                #print "$USER --> $UID_PATH{$USER}\n";
                return %UID_PATH;
            }
         }
}

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Please can someone help me out. I just want to to display all users with a UID greater than 500. Still main rational here is to understand hash behavior in subs. :)

In reply to Retunining hash values from subroutines by Bindo

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