Convert Letters to Numbers

How to convert letters to numbers with Javascript?

You can get a codepoint* from any index in a string using String.prototype.charCodeAt. If your string is a single character, you’ll want index 0, and the code for a is 97 (easily obtained from JavaScript as 'a'.charCodeAt(0)), so you can just do:

s.charCodeAt(0) - 97

And in case you wanted to go the other way around, String.fromCharCode takes Unicode codepoints* and returns a string.

String.fromCharCode(97 + n)

* not quite

Convert letters to numbers

thanks for all the ideas, but I am a dumdum.

Here's what I did. Made a mapping from each letter to a specific number, then called each letter

df=data.frame(L=letters[1:26],N=rnorm(26))
df[df$L=='e',2]

Converting Letters to Numbers in C

If you need to deal with upper-case and lower-case then you may want to do something like:

if (letter >= 'A' && letter <= 'Z')
  num = letter - 'A';
else if (letter >= 'a' && letter <= 'z')
  num = letter - 'a';

If you want to display these, then you will want to convert the number into an ascii value by adding a '0' to it:

  asciinumber = num + '0';

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