Re: Checking username and password but cant break whileloop!

[tobyink]

I think you want the last function.

my $match = 0;   # We haven't got a match yet.

while ($lines = <PSWD>){
   ($user,$pswd,$userID,$groupID,$info,$home,$shell) = split ':', $lin
+es;

   if ($username eq $user) {
      print "Checking username... MATCH\n";     
      if ($passwd eq $pswd){
         print "Checking password... MATCH\n";
      }
      else {
         print "Password does not match!\n";
      }
      $match = 1; # We have found a match
      last;       # So stop looping already!
   }
}

unless ($match) {
   print "\"$username\" does not match any users in our database!\n";
}

Update: I have also moved that else outside of the loop as an unless block.

[jaffinito34]

Same thing happened, it printed "...does not match..." for each user in the file rather than just once. Where you have it is for when the username is correct, which I don't have any issues with. It's when the username entered is incorrect that is giving me problems.