in reply to How to build a better mousetrap (or a variable to hold a column-measuring scale)

does this help?
DB<82> p join "+", map { $b =$_ %10; $a = sprintf "----%s--", $b ? " +${b}0-" : "${_}0" } 8..12 ----80---+----90---+----100--+----10---+----20---

could be shorter but I'm tired! ;-)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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