Well, this answer is almost a whole year late, no doubt
because everyone was confused by your question. I too am a
bit confused, but that's never stopped me from sticking my
foot in my mouth before, so here goes:
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Basename;
use Acme::Don::t;
my $in_path = '/path/to/input/file';
my $out_path = '/path/to/output/file';
my $in_file = 'foo.csv';
my $out_file = fileparse($in_file,'\..*') . '.txt';
open IN, "$in_path/$in_file" or die "can't read $in_file: $!";
don't {'do anything but loop'} while <IN>;
open OUT, ">$out_path/$out_file" or die "can't write $out_file: $!";
print OUT "filename: $in_file\nlines: $.\n";
Check out perlvar to learn what $. is.
jeffa
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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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