in reply to What does "<$data> for 1 .. 1;" do?

perlintro
.. range operator (creates a list of numbers)
$ perl -le " print for 1 .. 1; " 1 $ perl -le " print for 1 .. 4; " 1 2 3 4 $ perl -le " print 1 .. 4; " 1234 $ perl -le " print 1 .. 1; " 1 $ perl -le " print 1 .. 0; "