Need Help With Code Please

Ok, so, I made a little program where users can get a hotel room. (Well, just by telling the user what room number they are in.) And I was doing all that when I spotted a problem.


THE CODE:

password = math.random(1000,9999)
   function register()
	term.clear()
	term.setCursorPos(5,10)
	write"Password: "
	passwordA = read()
	 if passwordA == password then		   -------THIS IS THE PROBLEM. On this if else statement, it always goes to the "else" instead of the "if" part. I did type in the correct number password, but it doesn't
		 room = math.random(1,5)						  work
		 term.clear()
		 term.setCursorPos(5,10)
		 print("Your Room Number Is "..room..".")
		 term.setCursorPos(5,11)
		 print("Have a nice day!")
		 sleep(5)
		 os.reboot()
	 else
		 term.clear()
		 term.setCursorPos(5,10)
		 print("That Password is invalid. Please notify")
		 term.setCursorPos(5,11)
		 print("a staff member.")
		 sleep(5)
		 os.reboot()
	 end
	end
term.clear()	-------- PROGRAM STARTS HERE
term.setCursorPos(5,10)
write"Password for Password: "
passwordFP = read()
if passwordFP == "ben" then
	term.clear()
	term.setCursorPos(5,10)
	print("Password: "..password)
	sleep(5)
	register()
else
	register()
end

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Thank you for reading this thread, and if you do actually take time looking at it and helping this program, that would mean a lot. If you can't understand what the problem is, I'm very sorry. I'm at a young age.

read() always hands you a string, whereas your "password" variable will contain a number.

You could change the first line to:

password = tostring(math.random(1000,9999))

… or the input reading line to:

passwordA = tonumber(read())

You also have a problem where the program ways write, don't know if that has come up but you should have it as either print("blah") of write("blah")

He's using valid code there. If you only want to pass a single argument to a function, then the brackets are optional.