hi pokemonk;

In order to get an idea of how the word 'perl' gets printed, you may want to modify the code as follows:

#!c:\perl\perl.exe -w
use strict;
my $A="a";for(0..285074){$A++; print"$A";}
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That is, you place the 'print "$A"' statement inside the loop. To see what what happens when, say, 1000 characters are printed, you stop the loop by pressing Ctr 'C' (if you're using Windows).

kiat