Re: [FWP] string increment

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

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 07:48:32PM +0100, BAZLEY, Sebastian wrote:
> VMS also does not mind if the trailing " is omitted.
> 
> But it gives:
> 
> $ perl -le"map/^a*.z*$/&&print,aaaa..zzzz
> aaaa
> aaab
> ....
> aaaz
> aabz
> ....
> aazz
> ....
> wzzz
> xzzz
> yzzz
> zzzz

Please review the earlier messages in this thread.  That is the desired
output.


> whereas
> 
> $ perl -le"map/^a*.z*$/&print,aaaa..zzzz
> 
> seems to give the correct output.

No, it does not, as has already been explained several times.  That code is
functionally equivalent to:

perl -le'map print,aaaa..zzzz'

and does not produce the desired output.

Ronald

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