I have a one character string that i want to increment through the alphabet - how can I do that?

11/10/2006 10:20:22 PM

use magic. Since I don't know any perl, I would do


@letters = {'a','b',.....'z'};

foreach $letter ( @letters )
{
print $letter;
}


you get the idea. I have absolutely no doubt that there is a way to do this in perl in one short line.


[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 10:38 PM. Reason : or use chr: http://tyby.bke.hu/perl/cookbook/ch01_05.htm]

11/10/2006 10:33:54 PM

nah too much code

I have a string var that I want to increment by one character only

at first it looked like $char++ would work but now it doesn't any more

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 10:44 PM. Reason : s]

11/10/2006 10:44:02 PM

^Did you even follow that link?

11/10/2006 11:13:14 PM

good point - i just figured the link was describing the code you posted

got it. thanks.

11/10/2006 11:23:06 PM