I took your advice and added the following code to my source code. I want to print the students name to the result file regardless if I add a number on the end of the student name or not. I have tried putting the PRINT O at different location in this code. I can not get it to print to the result file. WHY and HELP!! Thank You Susan
open(I,'STNAMES.DAT') or die$!; # open student consolidated names open(O,'>results') or die"results: $!\n"; # result file open output $c=1; $foo=substr($_,0,26); # strip out only the student last name and first name. while(exists($student{$foo})){ # if the students is used already $foo= "$_$c"; # add the numer to it $_=$foo,substr($_,27,20); # add the remainder of the file back on to input string $c++; # increment the number } > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]