Hello, you might answered or read my other problem about this. But, i'm still having problems. In the newestm.txt it has a list of member names, and in the dbm file it has the members who are online as the keys (I changed it for the other people who answered me before). If the name appears in the newest.txt and also is a key in the hash then it'll print out the name like, Vegeta*. 
#open newest
open(NEW,"<$path/newestm.txt") or die "can't open $path/newestm.txt: $
+!";
@newest_members = <NEW>;
close(NEW);

#open whosonline
use DB_File; 
tie %whop, "DB_File", "$path/whosonline" or die "Can't open FILENAME: 
+$!\n";
foreach $onname (@newest_members) {
if (exists $whop{'$onname'}) {
print <<EOF;
$onname<b>*</b> - 
EOF
}
else {
print <<EOF;
$onname - 
EOF
}
} #foreach $newm
untie %whop;
dbmclose %whop;

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This code does not work for somereason even though a member name is in the newest.txt and in the hash. Whats wrong?

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