RE: [FWP] string increment

[Alistair.McGlinchy@marks-and-spencer.com]

Ronald,

Ronald wrote:
> 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.
> What shell are you running that in, that doesn't complain about an
> unmatched '?

Whoops my clever ploy at pretending to be a hard core Unix hacker have
fallen apart. I've been sprung for the Windows NT user I am. I admit it my
code, my OS and my life are a sham. Here's the pesky truth of how my OS plus
Activestate 5.005_03 build 520 deals with our current one-liner. 

D:\>perl -le'map/^a*.z*$/&&print,aaaa..zzzz'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

D:\>perl -le'map/^a*.z*$/&&print,aaaa..zzzz
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

D:\>perl -le"map/^a*.z*$/&&print,aaaa..zzzz
aaaa
aaab
<snip>

Does this mean that when playing Perl golf, NT gets a one stroke advantage
by not needing the final " character :-)

Alistair

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