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Re: converting numbers to ascii values

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Lew Pitcher wrote:

> "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$(x)
>> next x
>> 
>> would give ABCDEF......
>> 
>> how is this done in php?
> 
> for ($x = 65; $x <=90; ++$x)
>   printf("%c",$x);

There is a probably more efficient alternative to this shell-script/C like 
way in PHP:

  for ($i = 65; $i <= 90; ++$i)
  {
    echo chr($i);
  }

And finally:

$ php -r 'var_dump(implode("", array_map("chr", array_keys(array_fill(65, 
26, true)))));'
string(26) "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14

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converting numbers to ascii values richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-11-24 11:58 -0500
  Re: converting numbers to ascii values Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2013-11-24 12:06 -0500
    Re: converting numbers to ascii values The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-24 17:42 +0000
      Re: converting numbers to ascii values Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2013-11-24 13:39 -0500
    Re: converting numbers to ascii values Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-24 22:46 +0100
      Re: converting numbers to ascii values Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-24 23:01 +0100
  Re: converting numbers to ascii values Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-11-24 18:21 +0100
    Re: converting numbers to ascii values richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-11-24 13:15 -0500
      Re: converting numbers to ascii values "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-11-24 21:53 +0100
        Re: converting numbers to ascii values Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2013-11-25 02:50 +0000
          Re: converting numbers to ascii values Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-11-24 22:36 -0500
            Re: converting numbers to ascii values "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-11-25 06:47 +0100
      Re: converting numbers to ascii values Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-11-25 13:16 +0100
  Re: converting numbers to ascii values Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2013-11-25 02:47 +0000
    Re: converting numbers to ascii values richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-11-24 22:30 -0500
      Re: converting numbers to ascii values Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-11-24 22:12 -0800
  Re: converting numbers to ascii values Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 03:40 +0000

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