Re: [FWP] string increment

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

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 11:18:42AM -0400, Steve Lane wrote:
> Piers Cawley wrote:
> > 
> > > Any advance on this though?
> > >
> > > perl -le'map/^a*.z*$/&&print,aaaa..zzzz
> > 
> > That doesn't work.
> 
> how are you defining "work"?  this produces identical output
> of the original solution (with the minor difference that the
> original solution didn't print 'aaaa'). 

What shell are you running that in, that doesn't complain about an
unmatched '?

curious,
Ronald

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