sorry , didn't read as far as the if<br><br>what are you trying to do ? <br><br><br clear="all">-- vish<br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2012 07:40, Avishalom Shalit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avishalom@gmail.com">avishalom@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
because you are setting it to 1 every line<br><br>try ...BEGIN{$a=1};a++ <br><br><br><br>better yet , why not use $. ? <br>this is the current line<br clear="all">-- vish<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2012 07:33, Dov Levenglick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dov.levenglick@gmail.com" target="_blank">dov.levenglick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Why isn't $a incrementing in this one-liner:<br>
perl -ibak -pe "$a=1; $a++ if (s/ ADDR_RESET_PAIR/ $a<br>
ADDR_RESET_PAIR/);" file.txt<br>
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Running this on Win7 (This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)<br>
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I know it's an antiquated version of Perl, but it's what the company uses.<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Dov Levenglick<br>
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