Thanks, I guess there's something else wrong. The array works fine but when I write it to an output file, it double spaces everything instead of prints an exact replicate. If I s/\n//, everything will be on the same line and that would be messed up too. Any suggestions? 
open (FILE, "> redo-output.txt") or die "Error: $!";

foreach (@lines)
{
  print FILE "$_\n";
}

close(FILE);

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Results: 
    # Since the submit button was pushed, we have to check to see if t
+he username

    # they typed exists.  $passwords is actually the hash we made earl
+ier, but since

    # we are using just ONE value we call our passwords hash as a scal
+ar: $passwords.

    # To lookup a hash key to see if it exists, you use: if (exists $h
+ash{"key"}) {}.

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Instead of: 
# Since the submit button was pushed, we have to check to see if the u
+sername
# they typed exists.  $passwords is actually the hash we made earlier,
+ but since
# we are using just ONE value we call our passwords hash as a scalar: 
+$passwords.
# To lookup a hash key to see if it exists, you use: if (exists $hash{
+"key"}) {}.

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In reply to Re: Re: reading file into an array by Anonymous Monk
in thread reading file into an array by Anonymous Monk

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