Strange. The output I showed was using 5.8.4 (AS810)
[19:39:27.71] P:\test>perl -v
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(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
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[19:40:24.59] P:\test>perl -e"die map{($i)=@ARGV;$_++while$i--;chop}sp
+lit'',pop" 4 pqrstuvwxyz
tuvwxyzabcd at -e line 1.
I saw your for tr version just after I posted which is in a similar vien but much shorter. Nice work++.
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