Re: [FWP] string increment

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

Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:38:31PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, it does not work.  & does not short circuit, so the regex is
> superfluous and the entire list is printed.

Yup. I'm off to go and fall on my sword now. 

-- 
Piers

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