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Re: Humanized lists of numbers

by japhy (Canon)
on Jun 23, 2001 at 01:32 UTC ( #90876=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Humanized lists of numbers

I wrote a regex for Perl 5.6 that does this. It can be modified easily for letters: 
sub list2range {
  local $_ = join ',' => @_;
  s/(\w+)(?:,((??{''.++(my$x=$+)})))+/$1-$+/g;
  return $_;
}

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