because you are setting it to 1 every line
try ...BEGIN{$a=1};a++
better yet , why not use $. ?
this is the current line
-- vish
On 20 February 2012 07:33, Dov Levenglick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why isn't $a incrementing in this one-liner:
> perl -ibak -pe "$a=1; $a++ if (s/ ADDR_RESET_PAIR/ $a
> ADDR_RESET_PAIR/);" file.txt
>
> Running this on Win7 (This is perl, v5.6.1 built for
> MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)
>
> I know it's an antiquated version of Perl, but it's what the company uses.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Dov Levenglick
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