How to generate an array of strings numbers with a specific range
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generate an array with a range using PHP

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Welcome back to shorltearner.com, we are starting a new series of PHP interview questions for beginners and experienced,so in previous post we learn, Converting words to numbers in PHP
In this post we see how to generate an array with a range taken from a string.

How to generate an array of strings numbers with a specific range

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 <?php
function string_range($str1) 
{
  preg_match_all("/([0-9]{1,2})-?([0-9]{0,2}) ?,?;?/", $str1, $a);
  $x = array ();
  foreach ($a[1] as $k => $v) 
  {
    $x  = array_merge ($x, range ($v, (empty($a[2][$k])?$v:$a[2][$k])));
  }
  return ($x);
}
$test_string = '1-2 18-20 9-14';
print_r(string_range($test_string));
?>

Output

Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 18 [3] => 19 [4] => 20 [5] => 9 [6] => 8 [7] => 7 [8] => 6 [9] => 5 [10] => 4 )

another way to find range between to given numbers with the help of php predefined function range(), see the below example

<?php
$number = range(0,50,10);
print_r ($number);
?>

Output

Array ( [0] => 0 [1] => 10 [2] => 20 [3] => 30 [4] => 40 [5] => 50 )