So this is a subroutine in my code greps in a log file for the instance of the string "FAILURE: " which is saved in the $FAILURE_SEARCH variable. It then sets that to $info for later use. What I would like to know is, is it possible to also get the line number where grep finds the string? I've tried using $. (shown) but I'm pretty sure that's an incorrect usage of $. Any help is much appreciated!

 
my(@Log) = @_;
my $info = join("", grep(/^$FAILURE_SEARCH /, @Log));        #greps in
+ log for FAILURE: and sets $info equal to the line containing FAILURE
+: if found
        chomp $info;
        $info =~s/$FAILURE_SEARCH //ie;
    if($info ne ""){
        print "INFO: $info \n";    
        print "This occurred on line $.\n";
    }
    return $info;

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