How to get numbers in range between 001 to 012 in PHP

Question

I am trying to get the value between 001 to 012 with range function but it's returning 1,2,3....12 range(001,012) but i want value like this 001,002,003,,,012

Answer 1

Need to loop through and append them:

foreach (range(1, 12) as $number){
  $numbers[] = sprintf("%03d", $number);
}

print_r($numbers);