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in reply to Re: Character++
in thread Character++

But to decrement:
my $ctr = 'a'; $ctr = chr( ord($ctr) - 1);
Not sure why they decided not to implement -- on chars. (Thanks to Dog and Pony and Zaxo for pointing me to page 354 in Programming Perl for that.)
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