Re: [FWP] string increment

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 05:06:15AM +0200, Arjen Wiersma wrote:
> Hey people,
> 
> This nite someone came into #perl on DALnet and asked about a string
> increment routine. He wanted to do the following:
> aaaa
> aaab
> aaac
> ...
> zzzz
> 
> I came up with the following:
> 
> perl -e '@a=qw(a a a a); for($i=$#a;-1 < $i; $i--) {
> for($x=0;$x<25;$x++) {$b = ord($a[$i]); $a[$i] = chr(++$b); print
> @a; print "\n"; } }'
> 
> since it's 5 am and my mind went to bed at about 3 this morning I'm sure
> there are faster ways of doing this.. maybe even get caps into it too..
> 
> Any ideas?

perl -le 'print for "aaaa" .. "zzzz"'


Magical string increment, you know.


Ronald

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