Re^3: String increment

*shrug* if you don't want perl to dwim, be explicit, as always. For number operations, there's the rule "it's a number as long as it looks like a number (from left to right)".

Incrementig 31-OCT-2007-RevA what should perl do? 31-OCT-2007-RevB, 32-OCT-2007-RevA or 1-NOV-2007-RevA ? The latter with or without leading zero? How could that decision be reliably coded?

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
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");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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Re^4: String increment - reasoning by eric256 (Parson) on Oct 03, 2007 at 23:39 UTC
That made me pictures a DWIM::Inc module. ;) ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]