Re: Iteration through letter

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 12:51 -0500, Ray Hauge wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:41, Robert Cummings wrote: > > 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. > > I was typing up my response before yours came in... looks like I made the > spoiler ;) Doh! :) -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | 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. | `------------------------------------------------------------'