Hi all
I am having some trouble with the following snippet of code. Basically given a user, it's just supposed to return the uid. For whatever the reason, it's returning an ARRAY.. Huh? 
$conf{project} = &AskQuestion("What is the base project for this proje
+ct", "c",
print "***$conf{project}***\n";
my $uid = (getpwnam($conf{project}))[2];
print "***$uid***\n";

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Returns.. 
What is the base project for this project [mail]:
***mail***
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./Projcre
+ate.pl line 145, <STDIN> line 2.
******

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Thanks much
Could someone enlighten me on the finer points of getpwnam. Obviously, I am clueless on this..
Rhodium

The <it>seeker</it> of perl wisdom.

In reply to Help with getpwnam - and what it returns.. by Rhodium

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