PHP range() from A to ZZ?

Question

Is it possible to get a range with PHP from A to ZZ*?

a b c ... aa ... zx zy zz

For me this didn\'t work:

range(\'A\', \'ZZ\');

Answer 1

It's not possible with the built-in range:

Support for character sequences and decrementing arrays was added in 4.1.0. Character sequence values are limited to a length of one. If a length greater than one is entered, only the first character is used.

However, in essence what you are doing here is counting upwards from 1 in a numeric system that uses the 26 digits a to z. So you can quickly hack together a solution by counting, converting to base 26 (which uses the digits 0 to 9 and a to p) and then "translating" the digits to the range a to z.