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12-01-2011

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Oh I see, I didn't click that my statement was being read as a string and would always fail. Makes sense. Still new with all this.

2 more questions. Now my until loop exits when the user enters 'done'. I want it to exit when the user enter EOF (^D). Been looking around and can't seem to find the right way to do it. Tried putting it = ^D but that opened a can of worms.

Also, every time the search fails, what would be my best way to store all the failed accounts in a comma-separated list variable I could display at the end when the user exits the loop and script.

Thanks all for the help I appreciate.

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