i thought you lot would take it easy with me

castaway wasn't trying to be harsh with you; it's just that geeks like us can't read your mind, because we think differently. (I personally tend to think in Perl, when I'm thinking about programming stuff. So thinking about it the way normal people do is hard. castaway may have a similar problem.) Now that you've posted a snippet and an explanation, we are better able to figure out what you need...

From your description, it seems you're always getting that "your username and password did not match" page, right? For testing purposes, why not add some debugging information to that page, so you can have a better idea what's going wrong? 

open USER, "<$userfile" or display_page( "Your
  username ($username) and password ($password) 
  information did not match, or I was unable to
  verify them.  (Technical error code: $!)
  Check to see that you do not have Caps Lock 
  on, hit the back button, and try again." ), exit;

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Try that, and see what it tells you. This should help you isolate the problem, by telling you whether your $username and $password variables are getting set correctly and/or why you can't open the file. (Two chances out of three it's a permissions problem, but the value of $! will tell you that for sure.) 

$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/

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In reply to Re: perl tutorial clarification by jonadab
in thread perl tutorial clarification by onemadjock

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