Re: 2 basic questions

For 1 you can use a for loop, for 2 you can use substr

use warnings;
use strict;

my $check = "a";
$check++ for 1..3;
print $check;
print "\n";

my $input= "ab";
print substr $input, -1, 1;
print "\n";

__END__

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