PERL Beginners - Re: Prefix printed lines on screen with a line number. Need advice.

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Re: Prefix printed lines on screen with a line number. Need advice.

nobull67@gmail.com

2006-10-01, 6:58 pm

DJ Stunks wrote:
> Jay wrote:
>
> Don't get upset, there was some good advice there. Such as when it was
> suggested to use strict; use warnings; and use the 3-argument form of
> open();
>
>
> read perldoc perlvar and look for the special Perl variable to do with
> "current line number".

Consider also using the magic ARGV filehandle and the implicit read
into $_

while(<> ) {
print "$. $_";
}

Or at the command line:

perl -ne'print "$. $_"'

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