How to insert english alphabets as incremental order
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Algorithm to get the excel-like column name of a number
Here's a nice simple recursive function (Based on zero indexed numbers, meaning 0 == A, 1 == B, etc)...
function getNameFromNumber($num) { $numeric = $num % 26; $letter = chr(65 + $numeric); $num2 = intval($num / 26); if ($num2 > 0) { return getNameFromNumber($num2 - 1) . $letter; } else { return $letter; }}And if you want it one indexed (1 == A, etc):function getNameFromNumber($num) { $numeric = ($num - 1) % 26; $letter = chr(65 + $numeric); $num2 = intval(($num - 1) / 26); if ($num2 > 0) { return getNameFromNumber($num2) . $letter; } else { return $letter; }}Tested with numbers from 0 to 10000...
It's quite easy that you use php to implement this,please check codes below
$i = 'A';echo $i;echo PHP_EOL;while($i != 'ZZ'){ echo ++$i; echo PHP_EOL;}or see the results in http://codepad.org/QB4kyV7U
Sounds a lot like this SO article
MYSQL: how to "reorder" a table
Is there an absolute necessity to do what you are wanting when you can use sorting to output your data however you want?