hi, I need to get the passwords from the predefined file say for example file name passwordfile, in that i have like username scott tiger by the following code it should give proper format like 
open (PSSWD, "<passwordfile") or die "could not able to open the file"
+ ;
while ($line=<PSSWD>) {
chomp($line);
}
($uname,$password) = $line = ~ m/username\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*\S*/;

close(PSSWD);
printf("uname %c= $uname");
printf("\npassword=$password");

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but it is give an unpredictable output 
hspw  = 18446744073709551615
password=

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Please let me know where the error is

Edited (davorg): Moved to root node. Added code tags

In reply to How Do I Read Data From A File? by rboggala

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