> Hi!

Howdy
> 
> I am not sure if this can be done or not, but I want to 
> create a counter on the fly so to speak.
> 
>     foreach $id ( @IDS ) {
>         $cnt = "$id"."_cnt";
>         $cnt++;
>     }
> 
> All I get is "item_cnt".  Is there a way to do this?

You assigning a string to $cnt then adding 1 to it, that doesn't make sense

If all you want is a count of items in an array:

my $cnt = $#IDS + 1;

Or  you want to count how many get processed:
 my $cnt;
        for(@IDS) {
                print "$cnt - $_ \n";
                $cnt++;
        }

HTH 
DMuey

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 

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