I'll bet that you aren't really opening the file 'users'. Try this:

open(FILE, 'users') or die "reason: $!";
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Always check for the success of opening a file, Perl won't do it for you. Also, if you are planning on writing to that file handle, you should open like so:

open(FILE, '>users') or die "reason: $!";
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> means open for writing, this will clob the file, so use >> if you only wish to append.

Jeff

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