Incrementing Alphanumeric Fields

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012, Rod Caddy wrote:
>I have a customer running SCO Unix with Filepro 4.5.  They have a file 
>that they use as experimental documentation before they turn the product 
>into a real product number.  In the experimental file there is an 
>experimental number that was setup as (4, allup). They use the 
>processing below to increment the numbers.  The numbers are A000, A001, 
>etc.  The problem is that the Alpha does not increment correctly.  It 
>will work for a while and then will jump to Uxxx.(xxx being the numeric 
>portion of the number.  I am open to ideas here, I have tried modifying 
>the code several ways and have had very little success.

Perl has this ability.

Bill
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