Re: [FWP] string increment

[Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>]

Alistair.McGlinchy@marks-and-spencer.com writes:

> Piers,
> 
> > perl -le'map/^a*.z*$/&print,aaaa..zzzz
> 
> I like removing the last "'" character. 

Bugger, that was a mistake. Should be:

perl -le'map/^a*.z*$/&print,aaaa..zzzz'

> But I think the 2nd "&" is still necessary. Otherwise you just get
> aaaa..zzzz

Have you tried it? It worked when I tested it.


> Any advance on this though?
> 
> perl -le'map/^a*.z*$/&&print,aaaa..zzzz

That doesn't work.

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