Re: Iteration through letter

From: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:41:44 +0000
Subject: Re: Iteration through letter
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On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 19:26 +0200, Norbert Wenzel wrote: > Hi, > > just for fun I tried the following code: > > <code> > for($letter = 'A'; $letter <= 'Z'; ++$letter) { > echo($letter . ' '); > } > </code> > > What surprised me was the output, which looked like this: > > A B C [...] Y Z AA AB AC [...] YY YZ > > I don't have any idea how these letters get printed out, so I'd > appreciate any guesses or explanations. Read the manual and search the archives, this was beaten to a bloody pulp several months ago. (Hint: this DOESN'T work like ascii in C). Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'

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