incrementing letters like we do numbers...

[James Flanagan]

Thank you all that responded.  After looking at the solutions, I found that Bruce’s suggestion was exactly what i was looking for.  thanks again to everyone.  

James Flanagan
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On Apr 30, 2014, at 5:51 PM, Bruce Easton <bruce at stn.com> wrote:

> On 4/30/14 8:40 PM, James Flanagan wrote:
>> FreeBSD 9.2
>> Filepro 5.7.04
>> 
>> I am looking for the most elegant way (i.e the fewest lines of code) to increment through the alphabet in a way similar to how i would do it with numbers.
>> 
>> every year, i need to code to create the 26 folders for each letter of the alphabet.  below is the basics of the code that i would like to use (but it does not work because when you add “1” to a a variable that is a letter, the variable becomes a number instead of incrementing the letter):
>> 
>> fld_ltr::':
>> ::folder_letter="A":
>> fld_lop::':
>> ::folder=root_folder{slash{company_name{slash{"photos"{slash{job_year{slash{folder_letter:
>> ::unix="mkdir"<folder:
>> ::system noredraw unix
>> :folder_letter eq “Z":return:
>> ::folder_letter=folder_letter+"1":
>> ::goto fld_lop:
>> 
>> I am hopeful that i can avoid writing 26 differently lines of code to account for each letter folder.  thank you very much,
>> 
>> James Flanagan
>> Flantec.com
>> 
>> 
> James, I believe on the line where you increment, you just need instead:
> 
> ::folder_letter=chr(asc(folder_letter)+"1"):
> 
> Bruce
> 
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