line number var like perl's $.?

[Kirk Strauser]

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At 2003-11-17T15:51:52Z, Matthew Wilson <mwilson at sarcastic-horse.com> writes:

> Tracking line numbers is such a common thing to do when parsing files that
> it makes sense for there to be a builtin for it.

OTOH, I don't know that I've ever needed to track line numbers, other than
to do something like 'print "Lines:", linenum' after reading a bunch of
stuff from stdin.

I only mention this to illustrate that what's common to you is not
necessarily common to others.  Your essential feature is another's cruft.
- -- 
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group
Open. Solutions. Simple.
http://www.strausergroup.com/
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