monks,

Apologies if this has been discussed already.

my $iteration_number = 1;
foreach my $val ( @array ) {
   print ":$iteration_number:\n";
   $iteration_number ++;
}
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In the above code to get the iteration number I am using a explicit flag to get the iteration count. I am interested to know, is there any built-in variable available to hold the iteration count ? For example $. holds the line number during the any FILEHANDLING operation.