range

Description

range() returns an array of elements from low to high, inclusive. If low > high, the sequence will be from high to low.

If a step value is given, it will be used as the increment between elements in the sequence. step should be given as a positive number. If not specified, step will default to 1.

Example 1. range() examples <?php // array(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ,11, 12) foreach(range(0, 12) 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 character sequences 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; } ?>

See also shuffle(), array_fill(), and foreach.