is it somehow possible - while slurping a file - to still keep track of the line numbers? something like:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w my $file = "1.txt"; # 11 - line number 1 # 22 - line number 2 # 55 - line number 3 # 77 - line number 4 open FILE, $file or die $!; local $/; $txt = <FILE>; if ($txt =~ /55$/m) { print $.; # should print 3 } thank allan