Re: Incremental Character Generator
Re: Incremental Character Generator
- Subject: Re: Incremental Character Generator
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:32:32 -0800
On 11/21/00 2:14 PM, Greg Strange <email@hidden> wrote
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I am trying to get a sequential, incremental increase of a string. It is
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easier to explain through example.
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I want to take, say, four characters, say : aaaa
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and increment them through aaab, aaac, aaad, aaae, aaaf, aaag, aaah, etc.
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and then it rolls over and goes aaba, aabb, aabc, aabd, aabe, aabf, etc.
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until it would end with zzzz. This of course would generate (assumption of
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32 letters in the alphabet) 32^4 strings.
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The number of characters in the string could be as many as 20. How would I
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begin with this projekt?
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Thank you for your help.
This is very brute force, and someone else may have a more elegant way of
doing it, but it works.
--Michelle
repeat with loop1 from 1 to 26
repeat with loop2 from 1 to 26
repeat with loop3 from 1 to 26
repeat with loop4 from 1 to 26
set test to (ASCII character (loop1 + 96)) & (ASCII character (loop2
+ 96)),
& (ASCII character (loop3 + 96)) & (ASCII character (loop4 + 96))
--do something with test
end repeat
end repeat
end repeat
end repeat
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