> you couldn't do it with a grep call, because grep returns
> some subset of the original list. it doesn't make any
> modifications.

wrong. you could use grep, and it is destructive to the input list. something like this works:

my @n = grep s/$_/$count+=$_;$_=$count/e, <DATA>;
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i know it doesn't make any sense to use grep here, but it can be done.

cheers snowcrash //////