in reply to Too late for -Mstrict

you'll be wanting either
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $A="a";$A++for(0..285074);print$A;
or at the command line
perl -Mstrict -le 'my $A="a";$A++for(0..285074);print$A;'
Or in both cases withouth the strict pragma in use you can drop the my declaration on $A