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From: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
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Subject: Re: converting numbers to ascii values
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:53:33 +0100
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On 24/11/13 19:15, richard wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:21:43 +0100, Luuk wrote:
>
>> On 24-11-2013 17:58, richard wrote:
>>> In BASIC I would run a for loop to print out the corresponding characters
>>> for a given value.
>>>
>>> for x=65 to 90
>>> print chr$(x)
>>> next x
>>>
>>> would give ABCDEF......
>>>
>>> how is this done in php?
>>>
>>
>> http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php
>
> thanks that was what I was looking for.
> In my array the key is one letter.
> "A"=>array()
> "B"=>array()
> "C"=>array()
>
> I need to step through each character to get the list.
> What is a good way to do that?
>
> BASIC style
>
> x=65
> while x<91
> a$=chr$(x)
> print a$
> x=x+1
> wend
>
>

for-loop works fine, you can also use foreach-loop if you have a list of 
keys stored in a variable.

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  //Aho