Harry Putnam wrote:
This has the right output but its not very obvious how one would use this to increment a counter and files are being renamed.
As you would any other variable that contains a string. my $file = "$_.ext"; or my $file = $_ . '.ext'; or my $file = sprintf( '%s.ext', $_ ); or even my $file = sprintf( q/%03d.ext/, $_ ); though this sort of defeats the purpose of auto-incrementing a string. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "Probability is now one. Any problems that are left are your own." SS Heart of Gold, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ "This statement is true but unprovable." Kurt Godel * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>