I'm having problems passing the correct value of the textfield 'name' to a subroutine that i wrote... The value is being stored correctly from the looks of it to $user_name, but for some reason the value doesn't seem to work when passed into the routine. I've tried passing values directly into my routine to see if it is the routine, and those passed fine. Any ideas what is wrong? Here is the code below: 
# HTML CODE

use CGI qw/:standard/;

print 
  header,
  start_html('Punch Records'),
  start_form,
  "What is your employee number? ",textfield('name'),p,
  submit,
  end_form,
  hr,"\n";

  if (param) 
  {
    $user_name = em(param('name'));
    &file_creation($user_name);
  }
print end_html;

# Code to create output files

sub file_creation
{
  # Variables #
  $quit_loop = 0;
  $found_name = 0;
  $user_name=$_[0];
  $loop = 0;

  # Changing directories
  chdir "c:/Inetpub/wwwsbmf/scripts";
  # Converting username to correct format for comparison search 
  $user_name = substr($user_name, 1, 4);
  if ( substr($username, 0, 1) eq "0" )
  {
    $user_name = substr($user_name, 1, 3);
  }

  # Cleaning up the Kronos document
  open(ORIGFILE,"current") || die "cannot open current for reading";
  open(REVFILE,">revfile") || die "cannot open revfile for writing";
  while (<ORIGFILE>) # read each line of ORIGFILE
  {
    if (/South/) # If a South Bend Line
    { 
      <ORIGFILE>;
      <ORIGFILE>;
      <ORIGFILE>; 
    }
    elsif (/-+/)
    { 
      print REVFILE $_;
      <ORIGFILE>;
      <ORIGFILE>;
    }
    else
    { print REVFILE $_; }
  }
  close(ORIGFILE);
  close(REVFILE);

  # Searching for the correct username to return data to another file
  open(REVFILE, "revfile") || die "cannot open revfile for reading";
  open(FINALFILE, ">finalfile.txt") || die "cannot open finalfile for 
+writing";
  while (<REVFILE>)
  {
    # Converting Kronos username for comparison
    $current_line = $_;
    $current_id = substr($current_line, 33, 4);
    if ( substr($current_id, 0, 1) eq "0" )
    {
      $current_id = substr($current_id, 1, 3);
    }
    if ( substr($current_id, 3, 1) eq " ")
    {
      $current_id = substr($current_id, 0, 3);
    }
  
    unless ($quit_loop == 1 )
    {
      if ($found_name == 1)
      {
        if (/-+/) 
        { $quit_loop = 1; }
        else 
        { print FINALFILE $_; }
      }
      elsif ($current_id eq $user_name)
      {
        $found_name = 1;
        print FINALFILE $_;
      }
      else
      { $found_name = 0; }
    }
  }
  $quit_loop = 0;
  close(REVFILE);
  close(FINALFILE);
}

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