On Feb 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
my $linect="$."; while ( <FILEHANDLE>) { if ( $linect > 9 ) { do whatever ... } $linect++; }
need to use double-quotes around variable $.
No you don't.
my $linecount = $.;
works just fine.
And is there a reason you don't want to use $.? That is, why create another variable which does the same thing?
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