How to get the current line number of a file opened using Perl

Question

open my $fp, '<', $file or die $!;

while (<$fp>) {
    my $line = $_;
    if ($line =~ /$regex/) {
        # How do I find out which line number this match happened at?
    }
}

close $fp;

Answer 1

You can also do it through an OO interface:

use IO::Handle;

# later on ...
my $n = $fp->input_line_number();

This is in perldoc perlvar, too.

Answer 2

Avoid using $., nor $_ or any global variable. Here's a good answer explaining why. Instead you could use:

while(my $line = <FILE>) {
  print $line unless ${\*FILE}->input_line_number == 1;
}

To avoid this and a lot of others Perl gotchas, you can use Atom or Visual Studio Code packages like linter-perl. Due to these issues some people believe Perl is a write-only language.