in reply to [Solved] Generate list from a to arbitrary letter

something like this?

  DB<114> use POSIX

  DB<115> $times= ceil(log(703)/log(26))
 => 3

  DB<116> "z"x$times
 => "zzz"

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Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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