Jaime,
The problem is with the regular expression that you are using in the
split function.
When you say to use 1 or more ":" for the separator, you are causing
the password field to be skipped (if it is empty as you will have two
"::" together.
If you change your regexp to just be 'split(/:/);' your program works
correctly.
Steve
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:42:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi I am new to hashes....
> Can somebody tell me why I can print $KEY but not $VALUE?
>
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> #!/usr/local/bin
> open(GROUP, "/etc/group") || die "Cannot open:$!\n";
> while(<GROUP>) {
> ($KEY,$gpass,$ggid,$VALUE) = split(/:+/);
> $HASH{$KEY} = "$VALUE";
> print "the users in Group $KEY are $VALUE\n";
>
>
> }
> =======================================================
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Jaime Hourihane
> CDC-IXIS
> 212.891.1935
>
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