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in thread How to increment a MAC Address?

yes, i know 99 is not valid, just that im simulating something out here, where i require the value as 99 and not in hex.

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Re^4: How to increment a MAC Address?
by dcd (Scribe) on May 23, 2005 at 20:35 UTC
    if $_ holds your string, then this should increment it
    $_ = join ":",unpack "A2"x6, substr( ('0' x 12 . (1 + join '',split /:/,$_))), -12)