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From: niklas@appli.se (Niklas Hallqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: ".." inside a variable
Message-ID: <1362@appli.se>
Date: 9 May 91 23:03:21 GMT
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Organization: Applitron Datasystem AB, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
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okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) writes:

>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?

What version of perl are you running?  On my 4.003 the following
perl-script works allright:

#!/local/bin/perl
$range = shift;
eval "@array = $range";
print "@array\n";

When invoked as:
foo "'A1'..'A9'"

it prints:
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9

That's what you wanted, wasn't it?

						Niklas