$ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "0".."-1" ' (0 .. 99) $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "1".."-1" ' () $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "01".."-1" ' ("01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", 10 .. 99) $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "90".."-1" ' () $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "1".."xx" ' (1 .. 99) $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "11".."xx" ' (11 .. 99) $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "90".."xx" ' (90 .. 99) $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "-1".."xx" ' -1 $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "0".." -1 " ' (0 .. 9999) $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd " 0 ".." -1 " ' () $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd " 11 ".." -1 " ' () $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "0.0".."-1.0" ' "0.0" $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd " 0.0 ".." -1.0 " ' () $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd "0.0".." 1.0 " ' "0.0" $ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -e' dd " 0.0 ".."1.0" ' (0, 1)