First of all, the quick answer: declare $count = -1; somewhere earlier.

Next the long answer. Your code is not good for a variety of reasons, most of which you learn from practice and experience, which if you hang out here you will gain quickly. Try this: 

use strict; # always.
my $drive;
my $count = -1;
open( LIST, "list -l|" ) or die $!;
while(<LIST>) 
{
    ($drive) = unpack '@0 A3',$_;
    ++$count if m/Drive/;
    system("list -delete -dr -index ${count}");
}

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This code can still made better, but that should get you off to a good start.

In reply to Re: How can I start incrementing an index at 0? by Adam
in thread How can I start incrementing an index at 0? by raj8

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