This two minute, the chanting REALLY works, kind of script allows me to grab DB log files from a web server. 1, 01, 001, and 0001 are different and incremented. Let me know if I could improve this (I did start it as a one liner, though, so no error checking, etc.). Shows how to increment yet pad leading zeros as necessary.

Update : Modified this based on extremely's advice.

$Start = substr(++($Start="z$Start"),1);

This is the key.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w #-*-perl-*- use strict; use LWP::Simple; my $Pre = $ARGV[0]; # the URL up to num FIXED my $Post = $ARGV[1]; # the URL after num FIXED my $Start = $ARGV[2]; # starting num INC my $Max = $ARGV[3]; # ending num (by request) until ( $Start > $Max ) { # starting num until ending num my $Url = "$Pre$Start$Post"; getstore ( $Url, "$Start$Post" ); # below is where the magic happens $Start = substr(++($Start="z$Start"),1); }

In reply to Leading Zeros w/ increment by idnopheq

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