That certainly wins the "don't reinvent the wheel" award. :)

I ended up going with something a bit more self-contained (do need POSIX though, just to get started). Removing the validation checks from the snippet below, where $ARGV[0] is the first value, and $ARGV1 is the count, I ended up with:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use POSIX;
use feature 'state';

my $b36str = lc $ARGV[0];
my $begnum = POSIX::strtol($b36str,36);

for (my $i = $begnum; $i < $begnum+$ARGV[1]; $i++)
    {
    $b36str = base36($i);
    print "$b36str\n";
    }
sub base36
    {
    my ($tmpval) = @_;
    state $digits = join '', '0'..'9', 'a'..'z';
    my $newstr = '';
    while ($tmpval)
        {
        $newstr = substr($digits, $tmpval % 36, 1) . $newstr;
        $tmpval = int $tmpval / 36;
        }
    return $newstr || '0';
    }
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