>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rich> On occasion, I have found it useful to cobble up a "little language"
Rich> that allows me to generate a list of items, using a wild-card or some
Rich> other syntax, as:
Rich> foo[0-9][0-9] yields foo00, foo01, ...
Rich> I'm wondering whether Perl should have a similar capability, using REs.
Well, here's a cheap way:
my @list = glob ('foo{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}');
:-)
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