Hi guys I am trying to read names from a file for a login program. If I put one name in the file and try do it, it works but if I add extra names it dont. 
 my $name = "names.txt";
    my $i = 0; 
    my$t;
    my @names;    
    my $input = <STDIN>; 

        open(FILE, "<", "$names") or die "Cannot open $names: $!\n";
        
        while ($t=<FILE>){
            push (@names, $t);
        
        }
    
    while ($i<scalar(@names))
    {         
            
        if ($input ne $names[$i] )
        {
            
            print "not valid";
        }
        
        $i++;
    }

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If any of you guys can see where I am going wrong let me know. thanks guys

In reply to reading from file. by scripter87

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