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I'm trying to generate strings in PHP like
"A" next "B"..."Z" next "ZA" next "ZB"..."ZZ" next "ZZA" next "ZZB"..."ZZZ" next "ZZZA"
Could someone help me with a method?
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simply use increment operator -
$a = "A";
for($i=0;$i<100;$i++){
echo $a++.' ';
}
just run this code to see the magic.
PHP follows Perl's convention when dealing with arithmetic operations on character variables and not C's. For example, in PHP and Perl $a = 'Z'; $a++; turns $a into 'AA', while in C a = 'Z'; a++; turns a into '[' (ASCII value of 'Z' is 90, ASCII value of '[' is 91). Note that character variables can be incremented but not decremented and even so only plain ASCII alphabets and digits (a-z, A-Z and 0-9) are supported. Incrementing/decrementing other character variables has no effect, the original string is unchanged.