in reply to Re: Cannot skip first lines in array
in thread Cannot skip first lines in array

because it will only work in the context of a: while(<FILEHANDLE>)

or, of course: 

{ local $. = 0;
  for (@array) {
    if ( 0..9 ) {}
    ....
  }
  $.++;
}

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