Look Ma! No quotes!

perl -l40eprint,for'002'..'020'
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Gee... that doesn't work for me. Here's why:

$ perl -MO=Deparse -l40eprint,for'002'..'020'
BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = " "; }
print($_), 'for002' .. 16;
-e syntax OK
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-sauoq
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Well. If you insist on using shells that muck around with the input before your programs get a chance to see it :^)

P:\test>perl -MO=Deparse -l40eprint,for'002'..'020'
BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = " "; }
foreach $_ ('002' .. '020') {
    print $_;
}
-e syntax OK

P:\test>perl -l40eprint,for'002'..'020'
002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 01
+9 020
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Works fine for me :)

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That didn't work for me. All it did was print a space. (Both 5.6.0 on AIX and 5.8.0 on Solaris.)

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Nice. 24.. you guys are getting dangerously close. ;-) No quotes, btw? Then what are those four thingies? ;^)

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