>I am faced with the need to create (actually participate with) an alphabetic numbering system. The sequence is straight forward, and looks like this:
>
>AAAA
>AAAB
>.
>.
>AAAZ
>AABA
>
>etc.
>
>Really my only need is to be able to increment these codes by one, so I need a function that receives "DPRZ" and returns "DPSA". Get it?
>
>I am fairly confident that I can pound out the code to do this, but all of my ideas so far would take an enormous amount of code- can anybody think of a practical solution?
FOR n1=65 to 90
FOR n2=65 to 90
FOR n3=65 to 90
FOR n4=65 to 90
cString=CHR(n1)+CHR(n2)+CHR(n3)+CHR(n4)
ENDFOR
ENDFOR
ENDFOR
ENDFOR
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant