Increment a string with letters?

Question

I need to increment a string from.. let\'s say aaa to zzz and write every incrementation in the console (is incrementation even a word?). It would go s

Answer 1

Assuming you will always have 3 letters (or any other set number of letters), off the top of my head I would think to:

Have separate variables for each letter, so instead of:

string = "aaa";

Have:

string1 = "a";
string2 = "a";
string3 = "a";

Then increment the one you need at each iteration. This will take a little trial and error probably, and looks like you're going from the right over to the left, so roughly:

if(string3 != "z"){
    // Increment string 3 by a letter
}else if(string2 != "z"){
    // Increment string 2 by a letter
}else if (string1 != "z"){
    // Increment string 1 by a letter
}else{
    // What ever you want to do if "zzz"
}

I didn't test that but it would be something close.

Then

string = string1 + string2+ string3

Now you are left with a single variable like before which you can do what you intended with (i.e. output etc.)

You could also do this with a string array, which would make it easier to have a changing amount of letters, and would need a little more code to count the array length and stuff, but I'd want to get it working at least statically first like above.