Don't diddle with $_ so much... You make things more confusing.... Here is
what I see (forgive any formatting errors, using Lotus NOTes)...
while(<FILE>) {
$line = $_; # You are setting $line to the current value from <FILE>
chomp($line); # Getting rid of \n's etc.. (EOL chars)
# Now here, why are you changing $_?
$_ = $name_passed; # name is the argument passed to this script
## So here, you are looking for a match of $LINE in $_. You have this
backwards because you are looking for an instance of "name_passed" in the
line...
if (/$line/) {
print "yes\n";
exit 0;
}
}
print "no\n";
Let's try something like this...
while(<FILE>) {
chomp;
if (/$name_passed/) {
print "yes\n";
exit 0;
}
}
print "no\n";
In this example, the current line is passed in <FILE> to $_
The chomp chomps $_
The "if" checks for an instance of $name_passed in $_
The rest is the same....
Good luck!
Brent
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