Hi there, I've got the below value assigned to a variable that was read in from a file:

$ips="30..39,50..59";

I want to declare an array using this variable so that the range operators and commas are interpreted like this:

@array=(30..39,50..59);

Thus the ".."'s become interpreted as a range operator and the array is initialized with the number values 30 through 39, and 50 through 59 inclusive.

@array[0]=30;
@array[1]=31;
@array[2]=32;

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etc.

Doing the below initialization doesn't get my desired result. 
@array=($ips);
@array=("$ips");

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Instead the array value is explicitly set to the string "30..39,50..59".

How would one achieve this? None of the typecasting or quoting articles I found addressed this.

Thanks!
- Andrew

In reply to Declare array with range operator by Anonymous Monk

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