P:\test>perl -MO=Deparse -l40eprint,for'002'..'020' BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = " "; } foreach $_ ('002' .. '020') { print $_; } -e syntax OK P:\test>perl -l40eprint,for'002'..'020' 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020