Re: [FWP] number ranges

[Andy Bach <root@wiwb.uscourts.gov>]

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jeff Pinyan wrote:

> On May 14, Andy Bach said:
> 
> >I've a test that gives back all the case mgrs and their number 
> >ranges, but it looks like:
> >andy: [01234]5
> >tina: [56789]5
[snip] 
> Are you asking "how can I turn a given set of numbers into a character
> class to match them?"

Uh, yes. That'd be a much better way of putting it, hmm, I get this?
@nos = qw(0 1 2 3 4 5);
$start = shift @nos;
$i = $start;
while  ( $_ = shift @nos ) {
last if $i++ + 1 != $_;
}
$end = $i;
print "$start - $end; ", join(", ", @nos), "\n";

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