You might consider this a nitpick, but the replies by
pelagic and
busunsl need a clarification.
To the best of my knowledge, the built-in Perl variable
$. is technically the record number variable, not the line number variable, and a record is not always a line. It all depends upon the value of
$/, the record separator variable. By default it is newline, but it can be changed.
I mention this only because I once had a terrible time debugging a (poorly written) script which read from a file, used
$., and the script writer had changed the value of
$/. It took me some time to figure that out.
davidj
