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Posted by Fletchling   Australia  (54 posts)  Bio
Date Thu 08 Mar 2007 09:34 AM (UTC)
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I'd like to be able to cycle a loop through a to z. 1 to nn is easy, but how can I do a to z?
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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #1 on Thu 08 Mar 2007 09:42 AM (UTC)
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What language? In Lua you could do:


for i = string.byte("a"), string.byte("z") do
  local letter = string.char(i)
  print(letter)
end

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
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http://david.the-haleys.org
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Posted by Fletchling   Australia  (54 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Thu 08 Mar 2007 11:41 AM (UTC)
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Thanks David. Yes lua.
I'll use that in my loops, thanks again.
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