After the third script I've written that includes a sub to deal with the title issue, I'm thinking there must be a module to do this so I don't have to keep putting the same sub in all my scripts.

I'm looking to pass a command line argument like such (for example):

> progname -c 1,7-10,3-5,15

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The code I keep putting into my scripts simply takes the string argument returned from Getopt::Long (GetOptions) - in the above example: "1,7-10,3-5,15" - and expands it to a sorted array: 1 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 15" which I do some stuff with later. Not too complicated, the code I have works and is pretty straigt forward.

I'm just wondering if there is something in Getopt perhaps that I'm not utilizing? I've dome quite a bit of searching, but I'm using terms like "number range" and "expand list of numbers" and I'm not quite getting the hits I want.

So anyone know of a module that does this, or should I just keep pasting my code into each script I write that needs this functionality?

In reply to Perl Module for dealing with number ranges by VinsWorldcom

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