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converting numbers to ascii values [message #183889] Sun, 24 November 2013 16:58 Go to next message
Mr Oldies is currently offline  Mr Oldies
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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?
Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183890 is a reply to message #183889] Sun, 24 November 2013 17:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Lew Pitcher is currently offline  Lew Pitcher
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On Sunday 24 November 2013 11:58, in comp.lang.php, "richard"
<noreply(at)example(dot)com> 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);


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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183891 is a reply to message #183889] Sun, 24 November 2013 17:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Luuk is currently offline  Luuk
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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......
>
> how is this done in php?
>

http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php
Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183892 is a reply to message #183890] Sun, 24 November 2013 17:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
The Natural Philosoph is currently offline  The Natural Philosoph
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On 24/11/13 17:06, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Sunday 24 November 2013 11:58, in comp.lang.php, "richard"
> <noreply(at)example(dot)com> 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",$x);
>
>
> HTH
>
for ($x = 65; $x <91; $x++)
echo($x);

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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183895 is a reply to message #183891] Sun, 24 November 2013 18:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mr Oldies is currently offline  Mr Oldies
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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......
>>
>> how is this done in php?
>>
>
> http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php

thanks that was what I was looking for.
In my array the key is one letter.
"A"=>array()
"B"=>array()
"C"=>array()

I need to step through each character to get the list.
What is a good way to do that?

BASIC style

x=65
while x<91
a$=chr$(x)
print a$
x=x+1
wend
Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183896 is a reply to message #183892] Sun, 24 November 2013 18:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Lew Pitcher is currently offline  Lew Pitcher
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On Sunday 24 November 2013 12:42, in comp.lang.php, "The Natural
Philosopher" <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:

> On 24/11/13 17:06, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> On Sunday 24 November 2013 11:58, in comp.lang.php, "richard"
>> <noreply(at)example(dot)com> 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",$x);
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
> for ($x = 65; $x <91; $x++)
> echo($x);
>

Nope. That just gets the numeric values of $x, not the ASCII (or other
characterset) equivalent.

~ $ echo '<?php for ($x = 65; $x < 91; $x++) echo($x); echo PHP_EOL ?>' |
php
6566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990
~ $

The alternative I suggested gives

~ $ echo '<?php for ($x = 65; $x <= 90; ++$x) printf("%c",$x);
echo PHP_EOL ?>' | php
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
~ $


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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183897 is a reply to message #183895] Sun, 24 November 2013 20:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
J.O. Aho is currently offline  J.O. Aho
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On 24/11/13 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$(x)
>>> next x
>>>
>>> would give ABCDEF......
>>>
>>> how is this done in php?
>>>
>>
>> http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php
>
> thanks that was what I was looking for.
> In my array the key is one letter.
> "A"=>array()
> "B"=>array()
> "C"=>array()
>
> I need to step through each character to get the list.
> What is a good way to do that?
>
> BASIC style
>
> x=65
> while x<91
> a$=chr$(x)
> print a$
> x=x+1
> wend
>
>

for-loop works fine, you can also use foreach-loop if you have a list of
keys stored in a variable.

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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183898 is a reply to message #183890] Sun, 24 November 2013 21:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Thomas 'PointedEars'  is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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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"


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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183899 is a reply to message #183898] Sun, 24 November 2013 22:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Thomas 'PointedEars'  is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

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

That was a quick hack; this is better:

$ php -r 'var_dump(implode("", array_map("chr", range(65, 90))));'
string(26) "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

Note how PHP's range() differs from, e.g., Python's: <http://php.net/range>


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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183902 is a reply to message #183889] Mon, 25 November 2013 02:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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richard <noreply(at)example(dot)com> wrote in news:1os8m6ou5g6i4$.1n33ilnevl0le.dlg@
40tude.net:

> 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?
>
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=convert+number+to+ascii+value+using+php
Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183903 is a reply to message #183897] Mon, 25 November 2013 02:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"J.O. Aho" <user(at)example(dot)net> wrote in news:bff7adFecqpU1(at)mid(dot)individual(dot)net:

>
> for-loop works fine, you can also use foreach-loop if you have a list of
> keys stored in a variable.
>
You don't understand. RtS isn't asking for someone to tell him how to write it -- he's asking for
someone to write it for him.
Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183904 is a reply to message #183902] Mon, 25 November 2013 03:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:47:59 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller wrote:

> richard <noreply(at)example(dot)com> wrote in news:1os8m6ou5g6i4$.1n33ilnevl0le.dlg@
> 40tude.net:
>
>> In BASIC I would run a for loop to print out the corresponding characters
>> for a given value.
>>
>> for x=65 to 90
>> print chr$(x)
>> next x
>>
>> would give ABCDEF......
>>
>> how is this done in php?
>>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=convert+number+to+ascii+value+using+php

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=shove+it+up+your+ass
Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183905 is a reply to message #183903] Mon, 25 November 2013 03:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 11/24/2013 9:50 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
> "J.O. Aho" <user(at)example(dot)net> wrote in news:bff7adFecqpU1(at)mid(dot)individual(dot)net:
>
>>
>> for-loop works fine, you can also use foreach-loop if you have a list of
>> keys stored in a variable.
>>
> You don't understand. RtS isn't asking for someone to tell him how to write it -- he's asking for
> someone to write it for him.
>

Doug,

J.O. understands Richard quite well. But for others reading the
newsgroup, J.O.'s update can be helpful.

And I see Richard has his usual (lack of) intelligent response to you.

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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183906 is a reply to message #183889] Mon, 25 November 2013 03:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:58:34 -0500, 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?

Using a combination of the following:

http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.for.php
http://us3.php.net/chr
http://us3.php.net/print

Or in other words, just about the same way it is in basic, but using the
equivalent php control structures and functions instead.

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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183908 is a reply to message #183905] Mon, 25 November 2013 05:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 25/11/13 04:36, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 11/24/2013 9:50 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
>> "J.O. Aho" <user(at)example(dot)net> wrote in
>> news:bff7adFecqpU1(at)mid(dot)individual(dot)net:
>>
>>>
>>> for-loop works fine, you can also use foreach-loop if you have a list of
>>> keys stored in a variable.
>>>
>> You don't understand. RtS isn't asking for someone to tell him how to
>> write it -- he's asking for
>> someone to write it for him.
>>
>
> Doug,
>
> J.O. understands Richard quite well. But for others reading the
> newsgroup, J.O.'s update can be helpful.

Thanks for replying for me, you are spot on as usually.


> And I see Richard has his usual (lack of) intelligent response to you.

It's his problem.

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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183910 is a reply to message #183904] Mon, 25 November 2013 06:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:30:38 -0500, richard <noreply(at)example(dot)com>
wrote:

> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=shove+it+up+your+ass

And you wonder why people only help you once...
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Re: converting numbers to ascii values [message #183915 is a reply to message #183895] Mon, 25 November 2013 12:16 Go to previous message
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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 ???
;)
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