From: ts Date: 2000-12-17T18:58:01+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7499] Re: question: 'A'..'k' >>>>> "B" == Ben Tilly writes: B> I would assume that is because both Perl and Ruby use the same B> string incrementing algorithm. pigeon% ruby -e 'p "()".succ' "(*" pigeon% pigeon% perl -le '$m = "()"; print ++$m' 1 pigeon% Guy Decoux