sorry , didn't read as far as the if what are you trying to do ?
-- vish On 20 February 2012 07:40, Avishalom Shalit <[email protected]> wrote: > because you are setting it to 1 every line > > try ...BEGIN{$a=1};a++ > > > > better yet , why not use $. ? > this is the current line > -- vish > > > > > > On 20 February 2012 07:33, Dov Levenglick <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Why isn't $a incrementing in this one-liner: >> perl -ibak -pe "$a=1; $a++ if (s/ ADDR_RESET_PAIR/ $a >> ADDR_RESET_PAIR/);" file.txt >> >> Running this on Win7 (This is perl, v5.6.1 built for >> MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) >> >> I know it's an antiquated version of Perl, but it's what the company uses. >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Dov Levenglick >> _______________________________________________ >> Perl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >> > >
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