Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : Meneses, Alden wrote: : > I must be doing something wrong with this script.... : > : > my $pcname = 'ACME0001'; : > while ( $pcname < 5 ) { : I believe it has to do the arithmetic < which is making : ACME0001 into 0 which then gets added to 0. : : This is the code I used to verify it would work as stated: : my $MyIds = 'ACME0001'; : for(my $MyId=0;$MyId<1300;$MyId++) { : printf "%s\n", $MyIds++; : }
Hmmm, { local $\ = "\n"; print foreach 'ACME0001' .. 'ACME1300'; } HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Mobile Homes Specialist 254 968-8328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>