Re: Whats with the autoincrementation of a string

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Think of every position as a wheel in a mechanical counter.

There are three kinds of wheels 0-9, a-z and A-Z which can be independently be chosen for each position.

Clearer now? =)

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       the increment is done as a string, preserving
       each character within its range, with carry:

           print ++($foo = '99');      # prints '100'
           print ++($foo = 'a0');      # prints 'a1'
           print ++($foo = 'Az');      # prints 'Ba'
           print ++($foo = 'zz');      # prints 'aaa'
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Re^2: Whats with the autoincrementation of a string by space_monk (Chaplain) on Jun 14, 2013 at 20:09 UTC
Not quite independently. Any numeric wheels must be at the back. e.g. 'Aa00' will work, '00Aa' won't. If you spot any bugs in my solutions, it's because I've deliberately left them in as an exercise for the reader! :-)	[reply]
Re^3: Whats with the autoincrementation of a string by LanX (Saint) on Jun 14, 2013 at 21:36 UTC
Sure, anything with leading digits which isn't a proper number is dealt by atoi in numeric context, IIRC that's due to some C legacy. `DB<109> @a=a..c => ("a", "b", "c") DB<110> $a[" 1x"] => "b"` [download] plz note: only with `no warnings`! Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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