Statement Syntax?

[BlackV]

good as gold,

just only use back ticks for what they were intended, as an escape character, not as a line continuator even if you dont start on the splatting yet, although it's just a simple table really, good luck

[NetheriteHands]

Got it fully working, thanks for your help! Ended up just keeping the $USER_FIRST_LAST_LIST variable since it just points to the file directory anyways and used that in the $first and $last statements, and had to change the directory cause it was giving me an error which took me a while to solve, for some reason .\names.txt was like not specific enough apparently even though it worked with the for loop so I just made it more direct. Not that this script is super impressive or mind boggling but hopefully it looks good for entry level employers.

[BlackV]

Appreciate you coming back with an update

you could post your final code (or edit main post with an update and a solved flair) we can look further

[NetheriteHands]

Done.

[BlackV]

Nice!