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Next Letter ABCD..

Hi,

can someone please give me an example of how to go to the next letter...
Example if i passed a varaible of A
string strNextLetter = B

or if I passed a W
string strNextLetter = X

I dont really want to do a case statement as there must be a easier way?

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OBonio

You could use an array.

        private const char[] alphabet = { 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z' }
        private char GetNextLetter(char letter)
        {
            int charIndex = Array.IndexOf<char>(alphabet, letter);
            if(charIndex>-1 && charIndex <= 26) // if we've passed a valid char
                return alphabet[charIndex+1];
            else
                return Char.MinValue;
        }

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Jammer59

Without going into a lot of detail, here is a simple way to do it. Of course, you will need to determine what you want to do when the Starting Character is "Z" or "z".

string strCurrentLetter = "B";
string strNextLetter = "";
string Alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

if (strCurrentLetter == "Z")
{
// Do something special here
}
else
{
if (strCurrentLetter == "z")
{
// Do something special here
}
else
{
// Find the position of the Current Letter within the Alphabet
int intPos = Alphabet.IndexOf(strCurrentLetter);
// Find the character at the next position
strNextLetter = Alphabet.Substring(intPos + 1,1);
}
}

Jammer59

In my example, you will need to include 'using System.Text' in the code.