[java] How to get numeric position of alphabets in java?

How to get numeric position of alphabets in java ?

Suppose through command prompt i have entered abc then as a output i need to get 123 how can i get the numeric position of alphabets in java?

Thanks in advance.

String word = "blah blah";

for(int i =0;i<word.length;++i)
{

if(Character.isLowerCase(word.charAt(i)){
System.out.print((int)word.charAt(i) - (int)'a'+1);
}
else{
System.out.print((int)word.charAt(i)-(int)'A' +1);
}
}

First you need to write a loop to iterate over the characters in the string. Take a look at the String class which has methods to give you its length and to find the charAt at each index.

For each character, you need to work out its numeric position. Take a look at this question to see how this could be done.

just logic I can suggest take two arrays.

one is Char array

and another is int array.

convert ur input string to char array,get the position of char from char and int array.

dont expect source code here

This depends on the alphabet but for the english one, try this:

String input = "abc".toLowerCase(); //note the to lower case in order to treat a and A the same way
for( int i = 0; i < input.length(); ++i) {
   int position = input.charAt(i) - 'a' + 1;
}

char letter;
for(int i=0; i<text.length(); i++)
{
    letter = text.charAt(i);
    if(letter>='A' && letter<='Z')
        System.out.println((int)letter - 'A'+1);
    if(letter>='a' && letter<= 'z')
        System.out.println((int)letter - 'a'+1);
}

Another way to do this problem besides using ASCII conversions is the following:

String input = "abc".toLowerCase();
final static String alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
for(int i=0; i < input.length(); i++){
    System.out.print(alphabet.indexOf(input.charAt(i))+1);
}

Convert each character to its ASCII code, subtract the ASCII code for "a" and add 1. I'm deliberately leaving the code as an exercise.

This sounds like homework. If so, please tag it as such.

Also, this won't deal with upper case letters, since you didn't state any requirement to handle them, but if you need to then just lowercase the string before you start.

Oh, and this will only deal with the latin "a" through "z" characters without any accents, etc.