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Why needs the counter be inside a BEGIN block?
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Re^3: Renaming all files in a directory
by Cristoforo (Curate) on Feb 02, 2021 at 16:57 UTC
    In this example, perl is reading line by line, (perl -nle ...) and you want the counter to only be initialized (once) at the start of the script.
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