#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $ips='192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254'; my ($first,$second)=split('-',$ips); printf "%s-%s\n",$first,$second; $first = incip($first); $second = incip($second); printf "%s-%s\n",$first,$second; exit(0); sub incip { my $ip=shift; my @o=split(/[\.]/,$ip); $o[3]++; return sprintf("%d.%d.%d.%d",@o); }