one thing you can do for each line is just substitute the start of the line for the current number. as a one liner though:

perl -pi.bak -e '$count++;s/^/$count. /' file_name
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or in your could you could change:

foreach my $line (@file) {
  (undef) = <FILE>; # stores number of lines into $.
  $count++;
  print FILE, "$count. ";
  if ($count == $.) {last; }
}
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to something like:

foreach my $line (@file) {
    $count++;
    print FILE, "$count. $line";
}
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or:

foreach (@file) {
    $count++;
    s/^/$count. /;
    print FILE;
}
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As always TMTOWTDI. I am curious as to why this line:

(undef) = <FILE>; # stores number of lines into $.
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and this line:

if ($count == $.) {last; }
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is necessary.

-enlil

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