#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; sub simstr { $_ = shift; /([a-z]|\d+)$/i; my $ch = $1; $ch++; $ch =~ s/.*(.)$/$1/ if ($ch =~ /[a-z]/i); substr ($_, -(length $1)) = $ch; $_; } for () { chomp; print "$_;" . simstr ($_) . "\n"; } __DATA__ AAA30 BBC5 SHT12H DAL33B BBC49 AAA31 DAL33A BBC6 SHT12G BBC50 CBG99 WXYZ