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in reply to Adding scalars but with a twist..

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $Sel1Ttl = 1;
my $Sel2Ttl = 2;
my $Sel3Ttl = 3;

my $result;
for ($Sel1Ttl..$Sel3Ttl) {
  $result += $_;
}
print "$result\n"; # gives 6

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Update:
Sorry, this is just interpolating the variable values and using it for a range, thus it is giving nonsense if there are different values

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