Problem 44004. Get chain of consecutive characters

Created by Pablo Lobo

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bainhome on 26 May 2018

beautiful way to control the sequence.

bainhome on 26 May 2018

but when it comes to: first='b',last='a', it seems bit of tricky...maybe plus a number less than 1?

J. S. Kowontan on 27 May 2018

@Bainhome Good catch.

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