Hi vyeddula,
I initialized count to 1
Yes you did.

there is $count++ which it has to make it start from 2

No, with print $count++; you are saying, print the present value of $count, then increase it value by 1.

So if you want the value to start from 2, then increase the value first then print like so: print ++$count it is called pre-incremental.

Test this:

my $count = 1;
while(<DATA>)
{
             print ++$count;
             print ":$_";
}

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