in reply to Range operator anomaly

I would say it has something to do with bits 

$ perl -e"printf qq[\r%s], $_ for '0001' .. $ARGV[0]" '09'
9999

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Re^2: Range operator anomoly
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 15, 2012 at 03:54 UTC
    FWIW, perl 5.8.9 does it, as does 5.14.2
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