Re: Iteration through letter

On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:26, 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. > > thanks, > Norbert This topic was discussed at quite some length before, and Rasmus helped us all understand it. The reason that happens is the next "letter" after Z is AZ, which alphabetically is less than Z. You could change your statement to use $letter < 'AZ'. I think that would work. -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099