[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Is there a way to force a variable to walk through the alphabet the way it can numbers?
ie: for numbers: $k=0; $k=$k+1; would give you 1
for letters $k='a'; $k=$k+1; this won't give you 'b'; but is there any way of doing this that will?



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$k = 'a'; $k = chr(ord($k)+1);

$k will now contain 'b'. This works for ASCII, and English. No promises for Unicode or other languages. This actaully walks the ASCII sequence of characters, so the character after 'z' will be '{'.

Michael Koehn
Bergen County Schools

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