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From: okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: ".." inside a variable
Message-ID: <1180016@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 91 17:24:14 GMT
Organization: Cha Cha Maru
Lines: 19

I'm trying to get the .. construct to work when it is passed in as a command
line argument.  What I am having trouble with is getting the .. to properly
expand.  I've tried a bunch of ways to force the result into an array context,
but I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I've tried a number of variations on the following, to no avail:

	$a = "'A0'..'A9'"; # Eventually will be shift(@ARGV);

	eval "\@b = (\$a)";

Can anyone offer any suggestions?
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