On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:38:58PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote: > On occasion, I have found it useful to cobble up a "little language" > that allows me to generate a list of items, using a wild-card or some > other syntax, as: > > foo[0-9][0-9] yields foo00, foo01, ... > > I'm wondering whether Perl should have a similar capability, using REs.
Will Perl6 still have the "increment a string" ability? I can't count the number of times that's been my saving grace when I needed to portably and easily generate a unique filename. --Dks
