tikz define range of numbers (from x1 to x2)

Question

I have the following code:

\foreach \x in {0,1,2,3,4}

Is there a possibility to accomplish the same thing with something like the following pseudo-code:

\foreach \x in {x1 to x2}

Answer 1

As @percusse says in the comment, various options for this are covered in the pgf and tikz manual. Here are a few examples:

• For the integers from 0 to 10:

  \foreach \x in {0,...,10}
  

• For the even integers from 0 to 10:

  \foreach \x in {0,2,...,10}
  

(The stepping is determined by the difference between the first two numbers provided.)

• You can change the pattern midway. Thus, to get 0,1,2,3,4,6,8,10,12 write:

  \foreach \x in {0,...,4,6,8,...,12}