Why would the following function not return a value: (both $lastname and
$firstname are defined)

function get_handle($lastname, $firstname)
{
$handle_guess=$lastname;
$handle=array();
$fp=fopen('../truelies/userdb', "r");
while ($d=fgetcsv($fp, 250, ";")) {
                $handle[] = $d[0];
                }
fclose ($fp);
        for ($i=0; $i<count($handle); $i++) {
                if (strcmp($handle_guess, $handle[$i]) ==0) {
                                $j=1;
                                $handle_guess = $handle_guess . substr 
($firstname,0,$j);
                                $j++;
                }
        }
        return $handle_guess;
}

if I put an echo $handle_guess before or after the function then
nothing.  So far the only way to make it work is 
echo  get_handle($lastname, $firstname);

which is not beautiful.

BTW is there a limit to the length of a command.  If I can't figure this
out then I will have five or six of this "echo" statement concatanated
together.

Mar


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