<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >range</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Array Functions" HREF="ref.array.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="prev" HREF="function.prev.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="reset" HREF="function.reset.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.prev.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.reset.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.range" ></A >range</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN9091" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.8, PHP 4 )</P >range -- Create an array containing a range of elements </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN9094" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >range</B > ( mixed low, mixed high [, int step])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >range()</B > returns an array of elements from <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >low</I ></TT > to <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >high</I ></TT >, inclusive. If low > high, the sequence will be from high to low. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >New parameter: </B > The optional <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >step</I ></TT > parameter was added in 5.0.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > If a <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >step</I ></TT > value is given, it will be used as the increment between elements in the sequence. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >step</I ></TT > should be given as a positive number. If not specified, <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >step</I ></TT > will default to 1. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN9121" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >range()</B > examples</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php // array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) foreach(range(0, 9) as $number) { echo $number; } // The step parameter was introduced in 5.0.0 // array(0,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100) foreach(range(0, 100, 10) as $number) { echo $number; } // Use of characters introduced in 4.1.0 // array('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i'); foreach(range('a', 'i') as $letter) { echo $letter; } // array('c','b','a'); foreach(range('c', 'a') as $letter) { echo $letter; } ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > Prior to version 4.1.0 the <B CLASS="function" >range()</B > function only generated incrementing integer arrays. Support for character sequences and decrementing arrays was added in 4.1.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.shuffle.html" ><B CLASS="function" >shuffle()</B ></A > and <A HREF="control-structures.foreach.html" >foreach</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.prev.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.reset.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >prev</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.array.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >reset</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >