Sorry to bother you with a basic question, but I'm not getting this...I want to open up a file from STDIN and have this script edit it. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "File name to renumber:";
my $file = <STDIN>;
open (FILE, "$file") || die $!;
$|++;
my $line = 0;
while (<FILE>) {
    next if /^%/ ;
    s/^(?:N\d+\s?)?(?{$line++})/N$line / ;
}   continue {
    print FILE;
        close FILE;
}

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I know there is something lame that I'm not doing right but the perl basics on how to handle something so simple is bypassing my little brain....Thanks for any help!

In reply to File Handle Basics by airblaine

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