Thus spaketh To beginners@perl.org:
> Thus spaketh Randal L. Schwartz:
> > >>>>> "Gavin" == Gavin Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >> perl -pe 's/^/=$.= /' test.pl
> >
> > Gavin> That looks familiar
> [ ... ]
Sorry.
> Yes. But I found a way to confuse myself.
>
> Why does
>
> perl -pe '$_.="$. "' some_file
>
> start the enumaration at line 2, while
>
> perl -pe '$_="$. $_"' some_file
>
> starts it at line 1 (as wanted).
>
> Cheers
> Michael
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