I basically can get all of this to work as seperate scripts, however i thought i would try to get the second script in and call on it as a subroutine. I am trying to get the output of the subroutine and assign it a value that i can use in the script. What am i doing wrong? I get this error when i try to run this: Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at C:\scripts\perl\ChPass.pl line 13, near "$Password;" BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at C:\scripts\perl\ChPass.pl line 19. Here's my code. Any help would be appreciated. Ray 
# Ray Espinoza
# ChPass.pl
# This script calls in the encrypted password file and decrypts it and
+ uses
# its value as $Password to change the account password to $Password.
######################################################################
+###########################

#!D:\perl\bin -w

use strict;
use Win32::AdminMisc;
#use Win32::AdminMisc qw(SetPassword);
chomp(my $Server = <STDIN>);
my $User = "Administrator";
&getPassword = my $Password;
my $Result = Win32::AdminMisc::SetPassword( $Server, $User, $Password)
+ ||
    die "Couldn't change password on $Server: $^E";
    print $Result;
    
sub getPassword {
use strict;
use Crypt::Blowfish_PP;

my $key="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789";
my $bf = Crypt::Blowfish_PP->new($key);

open (IN,"phrase.txt") || 
    die "Can't read phrase.txt: $!";
    
while (<IN>) {
    my $encrypted_password = $_;
    my $decrypted_password = $bf->decrypt($encrypted_password);
    print $decrypted_data;
    }

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In reply to can i get the value outputed from my subroutine into my program as a value by RayRay459

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