Your actaul problem is indeed a syntax error:

# if ($usedpw ne m/$pw/);
# should be

if( CONDITION ) #no semicolon here
{ # BLOCK
}

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There's also something wrong about your if-condition, as it compares (ne does string-comparison) $usedpw to the result of matching whatever is in $pw on $_. This should confuse you, you probably want to use =~

if( $usedpw =~ m/$pw/ ){ #actaully this inverses yourlogic
    print "Your unique password is: $pw\n";
}

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I can't see the sense of this, no matter if you check for "matches" or "doesn't match".

Finally your loop is an endless loop, a very popular mistake, but it looks like you wanted an endless loop because of while(1).

So, what's this code supposed to do?

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In reply to Re: While loops with if by fruiture
in thread While loops with if by sulfericacid

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