Leading zeros kept or not kept while increment or decrement

[Angerstein]

Perl does
$x="0001";
$x++;
print $x;

Output:
0002

BUT

$x="0002";
$x--;
print $x;

Output:
1

Why and how can I avoid that.

(yes, i know about printf)


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