you are correct, you do not need " " around $.
thank you!
I was using strict and warnings, but must of had another error.
I am unfamiliar with the variable $.?  I tried playing with it, but was
unsuccessful.  I could not find it in cookbook nor in programming perl.



linect=$.
linect=1;
 while ( <FILEHANDLE>) {
      if ( $linect > 9 ) {
            do whatever ...
      }
 $linect++;
 }


Derek B. Smith
OhioHealth IT
UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams




                                                                           
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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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