Re^12: How the auto-increment operator works?

in reply to Re^11: How the auto-increment operator works?
in thread How the auto-increment operator works?

> , and generate a "carry" into the next left column (or a new left column character if it's already the leftmost) when they wrap:

Addendum: And the new left column will be of the same "type" like the old leftmost.

                               # leftmost is ...
  DB<14> $_="z"; print ++$_    # lowercase
aa
  DB<15> $_="z9"; print ++$_   # ...
aa0
  DB<16> $_="zZ9"; print ++$_  # ...
aaA0
  DB<17> $_="Zz9"; print ++$_  # uppercase
AAa0
  DB<18>
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Re^13: How the auto-increment operator works? by zapdos (Sexton) on Aug 02, 2020 at 23:26 UTC
Thank you too brother. ;-)	[reply]

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