Create an array of characters from specified range

Question

I read some code where someone did this in Ruby:

puts (\'A\'..\'Z\').to_a.join(\',\')

output:

A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O         


        

Answer 1

Maybe this function will help you.

function range ( low, high, step ) {    // Create an array containing a range of elements
    // 
    // +   original by: _argos

    var matrix = [];
    var inival, endval, plus;
    var walker = step || 1;
    var chars  = false;

    if ( !isNaN ( low ) && !isNaN ( high ) ) {
        inival = low;
        endval = high;
    } else if ( isNaN ( low ) && isNaN ( high ) ) {
        chars = true;
        inival = low.charCodeAt ( 0 );
        endval = high.charCodeAt ( 0 );
    } else {
        inival = ( isNaN ( low ) ? 0 : low );
        endval = ( isNaN ( high ) ? 0 : high );
    }

    plus = ( ( inival > endval ) ? false : true );
    if ( plus ) {
        while ( inival <= endval ) {
            matrix.push ( ( ( chars ) ? String.fromCharCode ( inival ) : inival ) );
            inival += walker;
        }
    } else {
        while ( inival >= endval ) {
            matrix.push ( ( ( chars ) ? String.fromCharCode ( inival ) : inival ) );
            inival -= walker;
        }
    }

    return matrix;
}

console.log(range('A','Z')) 
// ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"]

This is not mine, taken from: http://javascript.ru/php/range