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in thread Specifying a range through a variable

Use eval, if you must. 

my $range = '1..10';
for my $x ( eval $range ) {
    print "$x\n";
}

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Beware, however, that input validation is very important here. The string you pass into eval can be any Perl code, and it will do whatever that code does.

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Re^4: Specifying a range through a variable
by Zubinix (Acolyte) on Sep 19, 2008 at 02:37 UTC
    Also something like this work to: 
    my $a = 1;
my $b = 10;
my @range = $a .. $b;
for my $x (@range)
{
  print "$x\n";
}

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    So I could parse the start and end of range into variables. Cool. Thanks.
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