#! perl -slw use strict; my $id = "F00123Z"; for ( 1 .. 11 ) { print $id; substr( $id, 1, -1 )++; } __END__ C:\test>junk72 F00123Z F00124Z F00125Z F00126Z F00127Z F00128Z F00129Z F00130Z F00131Z F00132Z F00133Z