have alist of machines I need to ping these machine names are in a file I turned into an Array. How do I test each element of the array and return the result of the ping (specifically the IP address to another file.) this is what I have so far. 
#! c:\perl\bin -w

 my $NAMES = "c:/names.txt";
 open NAMES, $NAMES or die "DOH cannot open $NAMES";
  @NAMELIST=<NAMES>;
  chomp(@NAMELIST);
    foreach $NAME (@NAMELIST) {
      open TESTED, '>>C:\tested.txt';
       system('c:\winnt\system32\ping.exe -n 1 -w 75 "$NAME"');
      print TESTED "$NAME\n";
      close TESTED;
    }
 close NAMES;
exit 0;

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Any thoughts. I know that the print TESTED "$NAME\n" is incorrect but not sure how to get the return from the ping request?

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In reply to how do I test against each element in an array by dallok

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