Hi, I am checking line no in a file using $. While I am debugging the I tried to verify the value of $. using x $. and I surprised that value of $. is totally different. I am getting the line no of the file I am debugging not the line no of a file program opens and reads. But while running the program without debug mode it prints the line no normally. How to check the line no. then in debug mode? Here is in clear: 
  I wrote a program 'test.pl'. This program reads a file called 'names
+.txt'. I am checking line no. of the file 'names.txt' in debugging us
+ing x $. But I am getting line no. of 'test.pl' , not a line no. of '
+names.txt'.

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Can anyone help me ? Thanks Ashok

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