First, some background. This is part of a script I am writing to make a user in the system, and an SQL database. It makes users fine, but I haven't began on the SQL part yet.

This is part of a particular subroutine I wrote to get the password for the user from the admin- I know it is not perfect but this is a work in progress.

do
{
    print "Enter password: ";
    chomp ($pw1 = <STDIN>);
    print "Enter it again, I don't trust you: ";
    chomp ($pw2 = <STDIN>);
} while (($pw1 ne $pw2) && ($pw1 ne ""));

This piece of code works fine- my question is this: at first it did not function correctly, regardless of what was entered both times the first pw would be passed back. Changing to ne from != fixed it up. I thought they were the same thing, whats up?

-r0bb

In reply to Require some subtle wisdom by jailbird

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