I'm running into an error in my script. It is supposed to keep track of each time the $remoteIP variable changes and add to the counter for each time it does, however, the counter goes up each time through the loop. Any ideas why?

 
#reading log file and assigning values
while ($lines = <LOG>){
    $remoteIP = $oldIP;
    ($remoteIP,$rfc,$userID,$dateTime,$timeZone,$requestType,$fileRequ
+ested,$requestProtocol,$statusCode,$sizeOfFile) = split ' ', $lines;

    if ($oldIP ne $remoteIP){
    $IPcount += 1;
    }

    print "$IPcount\n";

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I'm an idiot...

$oldIP = $remoteIP;
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