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<quote who="Ankur Gupta">
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>>I am not sure why? It misses the odd ones.
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>>while (<PASSWD>) {
>>my @passwds = split /:/, <PASSWD>;
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> You are reading the file twice in each while loop. Whenever you access
> <PASSWD>, it returns a line and moves to the next line of the file.
> So in "while (<PASSWD>) {" it returns one line of the passwd file .
> As you are reading the line again in "my @passwds = split /:/, <PASSWD>;",
> you are missing out on the previous line.
>
Got ya!!
Thanks.
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