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in reply to Re^2: Converting a list of numbers to use a range operator
in thread [Solved] Converting a list of numbers to use a range operator

I even love the way Parse::Range does it.
Putting your original $list in the function parse_range prints out beautifully like so:

use warnings; use strict; use Parse::Range qw(parse_range); my $list = "2-4,10-12"; print join ','=> parse_range($list); # 2,3,4,10,11,12

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