Hello..again.. Well, I'm stuck and used all resources and now I'm here again for help. --objective of subroutine: to take the aba, acct, and time from a file and compare to another file. if it's not there, then print to comparing file. Comparing to this file. File looks like this: 
0246801357;12345678;000425  # aba, acct, time

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I am just reading the above file, if all matches, then print out to an error file that the info is already there. if doesn't match, print unmatched to the above file and set the variabe $trans_code to 'true'. when opening Tracking at beginning of program, it is opened with >> for appending. All variables are global. 


sub table{
        seek(TRACKING, 0, 0);
        while (defined($t_table = <TRACKING>)){
                chomp($t_table);
                @trk = split(/;/, $t_table);
                if (($trk[0] == $aba) && ($trk[1] == $acct) && ($trk[2
+] == $time)) {
               print ERROR "ABA:$aba\tAccount:$acct\t$time already in 
+table\n";
                    } else {
                    print TRACKING "$aba;$acct;$aba\n";
                    $trans_code = "true";
                    } # end else / if
        } # end while tracking
} # end sub table

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This subroutine is called in the script by &table; Is there something missing? I've tried calling with &table();, I've put the last variable initialized in a return statement -- return($trans_code_valid).. how to make it work, help please.. thanks in advance... i'm learning (atleast i used code tags in this posting!) Zo

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