Hey All,

This will probably be a no-brainer for you peoples here, but I have a quick question.

Let's say I have a text file with the following lines.

test
test
test
test
test
test

I have figured out how to get this to work for 2 entries.  Just like this:
perl -pe 's/test/$state = not $state; $state ? "test1" : "test2"/eg;$_'

This would give me:
test1
test2
test1
test2

What I need is a way to do this more dynamically.  Let's say I wanted 5 responses instead of two.  The output would be like this:

test1
test2
test3
test4
test5
test1
etc...

Could anyone give me a couple of pointers on how to do this?  I haven't used perl very much.  But am finding a need to learn some scripting.

Thanks!

In reply to search and replace with serialized answers by TheBigAmbulance

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