[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is there a way to force a variable to walk through the alphabet the
> way it can numbers?
>
> ie: for numbers: $k=0; $k=$k+1; would give you 1
>
> for letters $k='a'; $k=$k+1; this won't give you 'b'; but is there
> any way of doing this that will?
But ++$a will, because it is magic in this context. (See 'perldoc
perlop', "Auto-increment and Auto-decrement").
For example:
for ($i = 'a'; $i ne 'zzz'; ++$i) { print "$i\n"; }
Or
print "$_\n" for ('a'..'z);
HTH
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Brian Raven
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