range Create an array containing a range of elements arrayrange mixedlow mixedhigh intstep range returns an array of elements from low to high, inclusive. If low > high, the sequence will be from high to low. The optional step parameter was added in 5.0.0. 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. ]]> Prior to version 4.1.0 the range function only generated incrementing integer arrays. Support for character sequences and decrementing arrays was added in 4.1.0. See also shuffle and foreach.