password file problem

madmonster99 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have access to the /etc/passwd file. All I'm doing is trying to write a program that reads the file /etc/passwd and prints the list of usernames and names of the users contained in the file. The output needs to be in the format: username_1 name_1 username_2 name_2 The code for this problem that I am using is this: - UW PICO(tm) 4.5 File: password5.pl-----------------------------

#!/usr/bin/perl

-lne 'print (split(/:/))[0]' /etc/passwd
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and the error i get is this: et791:~$ ./password5.pl String found where operator expected at ./password5.pl line 3, near "lne 'print (split(/:/))[0]'" (Do you need to predeclare lne?) syntax error at ./password5.pl line 3, near "lne 'print (split(/:/))[0]'" Execution of ./password5.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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