RE: Re[2]: [PHP] A to Z incremental

Paul wrote: > Hello Pablo, > > Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:05:23 PM, you wrote: > >>> Hi! >>> Got this script: >>> >>> <?php >>> for($i='A';$i<='Z';$i++){ echo $i.' | '; } >>>> >>> >>> The output is: >>> A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | >>> R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | AA | AB | AC | ... YX | YY >>> | YZ >>>> >>> >>> where is should display only letters from A to Z. >>> Why is that? >>> > >> Hi, Paul. Try this instead. > ... > > > Thanks Pablo! > I know that but I was curios why that happens. > > > -- > Best regards, > Paul mailto:lists@pardel.net Hi Paul. Since you're dealing with a string, A is less than AA which will be less than Z. It's stopping at YZ because if it were to increment once more, it would be ZZ, which (again, because this is a string) is greater than Z so thus the loop exits. HTH. Cheers, Pablo