You can increment letters just like you increment numbers. For example:
$x = "a"; $x++; print $x; # prints "b" And the letter "z" incremented becomes "aa". $x = "z"; $x++; print $x; # prints "aa" So here is the script... $A = "a"; # assign "a" to $A. for(0..285074){$A++;} # increment $A 285,074 times print"$A\n"; # prints the new value Rob -----Original Message----- From: zentara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: interesting JAPH, how does this work? Hi, I saw this on perlmonks.org. I can't understand how it works. Can anyone enlighten me? #!/usr/bin/perl my $A="a";for(0..285074){$A++;}print"$A\n"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]