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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:16:26 +0100
From: Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan>
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Subject: Re: converting numbers to ascii values
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On 24-11-2013 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......

no, it gives:
A
B
C
D
.....

>>>
>>> how is this done in php?
> What is a good way to do that?
>
> BASIC style
>
> x=65
> while x<91
> a$=chr$(x)
> print a$
> x=x+1
> wend
>
>

this also gives:
A
B
C
D
.....

What about trying to copy this to PHP:

$x=65;
while ($x<91) {
   a$=chr($x);
   print $a;
   $x=$x+1;
}



RTFM:
http://us2.php.net/while

o, BTW, i left (at least) 1 error in above code,
maybe you can find it ???
;)