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in thread Yet another one-liner

this doesn't work as $. isn't reset after each file: 
perl -pe 'print "$. "' file1 file2
1 
2 1
3 2
4 3
5 1
6 2
7 3
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Is this a bug? I'm using v. 5.6.0

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(tye)Re: Yet another one-liner
by tye (Sage) on Jan 12, 2001 at 01:03 UTC

    That is why you need the explicit close that the original poster included. Good catch!

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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