Hi Monks! I'm investigating a file, matching and extracting interesting stuff. I split the file several times so it's not intact during my operations. Now I want to know the line number where I extracted something. Is it possible to get this without having to use some kind of counter? An example to illuminate my problem further:

 if(/(\S+)\s+(\d+)/)
 {
  $mylist{$1} = $2;
 }
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This is one of the regexes I use to store values in a list. Is it at this point possible to get the line number where I got the match? I have the filename as a variable, but when I match $_ isn't the entire file, but a small part of it. Thanks!

Update: I read the file with

while (<MYFILE>)
{
 $alldata .= $_ ;
}
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Newlines aren't important when going through the data.

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