Actually, it isn't the $i++. It was the $i < 501. Particularly, the <. Switching to
$i lt '501'
produces the sequence with leading zeros intact.
for ( $i = "001"; $i lt "501"; $i++ )
Cheers!
"$Bill Luebkert" wrote:
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
> >
> > Doesn't he need
> >
> > for ( $i="001"; $i < 501; $i++ ) {print "$i\n"}
> >
> > due to his comment about a string of alpha & numbers ???? $i++ is supposed to be
>"magical" on
> > strings, not affecting their length. But the above doesn't work (Win32,
>ActiveState perl 5.6
> > build 623); the first time it _does_ get 001 (with the quotes), but the second
>time is just
> > plain "2".
>
> The $i++ causes that.
>
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