Thanks everyone for your help, it works fine now.... One last question.... now that I have the correct number, how do I only grab the last 4 digits so for example: 
my original number was 9 but now with the code u guys gave me, we incr
+emented into 10. I need to plug this number back into the file name b
+ut creating a new file called "name_0010" (originally it was "name_00
+09"). Here is the code I currently have, I know theres a more efficie
+nt way to do this...

$newfile = substr($newfile_n,0, 4);
$newfile =~ s/^(0)+//;
++$newfile;
print"$newfile\n";
$newfile = "000".$newfile; #if it gets to 100 then it will look like t
+his "0100"
substr($newfile, 1, 4);

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In reply to Re^2: adding 1 to a char of 1 by Anonymous Monk
in thread adding 1 to a char of 1 by Anonymous Monk

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