I am relatively new to PERL. I was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction as to why the script below does not work correctly. It is supposed to take the first argument and add 1 to it until it reaches the second argument. I have tried various ways top write it - and it keeps on giving me errors. I am not looking for a direct answer - but to be pointed in the right direction 
#!/usr/bin/perl
$num1=$ARGV[0];
$num2=$ARGV[1];
if ( @ARGV < 2 )
{
print "Number of arguments must be two \n"
}
elsif ( @ARGV > 2 )
{
print "Number of arguments cannot be more than 2 \n"
}
else
{
($num=$num1++);
print $num;
print "\n";

}
unless ($num1=$num2)
{
print $num2;
}

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