Hello Monks

I don't understand why the following code won't accept a value within the range specified. It dies even when values that should be valid are given. Thanks for any light you may shed on this

Chris 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Std;

my $usage = "Usage; $0 [-t x] where x is
a time interval in minutes from 10 to 60.
If no interval is given, defaults to 1 hour (60 min).\n";

my %opts;
getopts ('t:',\%opts);
my $interval = $opts{t} || 60;
die $usage unless $interval == 10 .. $interval == 60;

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Update:

Thank you for your helpful answers. I have read perlop (probably not closely enough :-) ). I was looking at some old code snippets i kept around and thought that one of them did what I was first attempting

for my $i (1 .. 15) {
    if(my $cnt = $i==5 ... $i==10) {
        print "$i - $cnt\n";
    }
}

prints

C:\perlp>range_op.pl
5 - 1
6 - 2
7 - 3
8 - 4
9 - 5
10 - 6E0

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I think in this example it becomes true when $==5 and then becomes false when $i==10. Just some fuzzy thinking on my part. I guess neniro's example is the one that will work for me.

Thanks again

Chris

In reply to Range operator doesn't seem to work by Cristoforo

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