Turning number ranges into prefixes

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:31:06PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:34:39PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > I have a little problem that I could do with some help with.  I have
> > data specifying number ranges.  For example, 1424210000 - 1424225999.  I
> > need to turn that into a list of prefixes like 142421, 1424220, 1424221,
> > 1424222, 1424223, 1424224, 1424225.  That range includes all the numbers
> > of the right length with those prefixes, and no others.  Is there a
> > terribly clever way of generating the list?
> String XOR the numbers together.

Errm?

$ perl -e 'print "1424210000" ^ "1424225999"'
[some whitespace]

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