You have given great advice and I really thank you. I am ready to submit my assignment; however you get 40 points for turning that foreach loop into a subroutine. Everytime I try the script with the foreach loop in a subroutine I get errors (uninitialized value errors).

The assignment is worth 200 points. Some points are for coding style. When you say be consistent with the style do you mean that you indent a certain amount of spaces every time for a while, for, foreach, etc... function? I tried to stay consistent.

I just wanted to thank you for your guidance. Now the class is back to the O Reilly book and homework at the end of the chapters. The final is a huge ordeal as it you have to write a unix adminsitration script (add a new user, check to see if the name exists, generate a random password using the username, etc...) - I hope the O Reilly book can assist with the writing of this script!

Thank you Tanktalus

Sierra

In reply to Re^8: seeking advice on loops by sierrastar
in thread seeking advice on loops by sierrastar

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