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  <refentry id="function.range">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>range</refname>
    <refpurpose>
     Create an array containing a range of elements
    </refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
   <title>Description</title>
    <methodsynopsis>
     <type>array</type><methodname>range</methodname>
     <methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>low</parameter></methodparam>
     <methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>high</parameter></methodparam>
     <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>step</parameter></methodparam>
    </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     <function>range</function> returns an array of elements from
     <parameter>low</parameter> to <parameter>high</parameter>,
     inclusive.  If low > high, the sequence will be from high to low.
    </para>
    <note>
     <title>New parameter</title>
     <simpara>
      The optional <parameter>step</parameter> parameter was added in 5.0.0.
     </simpara>
    </note>
    <para>
     If a <parameter>step</parameter> value is given, it will be used as the
     increment between elements in the sequence.  <parameter>step</parameter>
     should be given as a positive number.  If not specified,
     <parameter>step</parameter> will default to 1.
    </para>
    <para>
     <example>
      <title><function>range</function> examples</title>
      <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?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;
}
?>
]]>
      </programlisting>
     </example>
    </para>
    <note>
     <para>
      Prior to version 4.1.0 the <function>range</function> function
      only generated incrementing integer arrays.  Support for
      character sequences and decrementing arrays was added in 4.1.0.
     </para>
    </note>
    <para>
     See also <function>shuffle</function> and
     <link linkend="control-structures.foreach">foreach</link>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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