I verified the intent from Larry, and ".." is definitely (and will be,
at least in Perl 5) only ever meant for doing the expansion on the
"A".."Z", "a".."z" (and "0..9") ranges.
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>> Can something be set in the script to make it work as expected?
>>
>> An observation; UTF-8 keys in a hash can be defined without
>> quotation:
>>
>> %myHash =(
>>=> "this",
>>=> "that",
>> : : :
>> );
>>
>> but later the keys must be referenced in quoted form. T
> logical semantics for this would be rather ... odd. What should
> "a"..chr(0x100) generate, for example?
The above would be strange because there are non-\w characters in that
range, so it's kind of like the range numerically but with holes.
Even stranger would be
"a"..chr(0x100).chr(0x100)
I
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:30:37PM -0500, Daniel Yacob wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I seem to remember in the past, possibly with a development
> version of Perl, that unicode chars in utf-8 worked fine as
> loop iterators, as per:
>
> foreach (..) { do something }
>
> where and are single charact
Greetings,
I seem to remember in the past, possibly with a development
version of Perl, that unicode chars in utf-8 worked fine as
loop iterators, as per:
foreach (..) { do something }
where and are single characters in utf-8. With Perl
5.8.0 the loop cycles only once. Is this a bug or by d
