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range() Lists Everything Between Strings
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range() used to cast the arguments to integers. In PHP 8.3, strings are used as is, and range() returns the list of chars between the ASCII codes of those strings. 

PHP code
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.. code-block:: php

   <?php
   
   print_r(range('0', 'A')); 
   
   ?>

Before
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.. code-block:: output

   Array
   (
       [0] => 0
   )
   

After
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.. code-block:: output

   Array
   (
       [0] => 0
       [1] => 1
       [2] => 2
       [3] => 3
       [4] => 4
       [5] => 5
       [6] => 6
       [7] => 7
       [8] => 8
       [9] => 9
       [10] => :
       [11] => ;
       [12] => <
       [13] => =
       [14] => >
       [15] => ?
       [16] => @
       [17] => A
   )
   


PHP version change
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This behavior changed in 8.3