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the script writer had changed the value of $/.
I hope you berated gave him a "talking to" about not using local (appropriately).

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Re^3: Line number in a file
by davidj (Priest) on Jul 07, 2004 at 16:51 UTC
    Well, I was considering requesting that his Perl privileges be temporarily suspended, but then, how could he learn to write better code. So, instead, I smacked him on the head with the Camel book :)

    davidj