Hello monks , I am new to perl and this site : my question is , I have the following file which I am reading : 
[PASSWORDS]
GUY    ddd
GIRL   dfd33
BOY    df341

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I am reading it as follow 
my @listOfPass;
open(INPUT , "<$input_file" ) or die "couldn't open";
my ($section,%passwds);
while(<CONFILE>)
     {  chomp;
 if (/^\[(.*?)\]$/) { $section = $1; next; }
 if ($section eq 'PASSWORDS') {
 my ($mkt,$pass) = split;
 $passwds{$mkt} = $pass;
 $passwds{$pass} = $mkt;

@listOfPass = "$pass"; # <------ not working :((

                }#end while loop
close (INPUT);

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What I am trying tod do is after getting the passwords , store it into the array that is declared outside the open statment, when I try to store it into the array , it says it is not declare and when I declare it inside , it can't see it outside that loop. I just want to have all the passwords stored in a global array in the order it was read from the config file so I can pass that array to a different subs inside my program. I hope I am clear ,,, thanks

In reply to Array issue by Anonymous Monk

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