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Old 05-15-2013
Procedure not passing variables

Hi all, I just started some basic Perl programming and have been experimenting with some basic commands and bumped into and issue. Basically, I have a procedure which retrieves a list of names from a file named file. Then the program asks the user to enter a name and compares it to the list retrieved. My issue is that outside the procedure $name is empty. Thanks in advance.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

list_proc();
print "$name";
print "Enter name to check if you're on the guest list\n";
$entry = <STDIN>;
chomp ($entry);

if ($entry ne $name) {
        print "You're not on the list!";
} else {
        print "Enjoy your evening $entry";
}

sub list_proc {
open (WORDSLIST, "file")|| die "can't open wordslist";

while ($name = <WORDSLIST>) {
        chomp($name);
        print "$name\n";
}
close (WORDSLIST);
}

# 2  
Old 05-15-2013
Might there be a blank line at the end of the file?
# 3  
Old 05-17-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Might there be a blank line at the end of the file?
There isn't a blank line at the end of the file. I can't seem to pass the contents of $name from the procedure to the main program.
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