What position is the letter A? Let's use a lookup table!

[Nagy Vilmos]

That was written just before you stopped drinking? Yes?

veni bibi saltavi

[Rotted Frog]

That did have a point. It was actually quite a funny point.

[Rotted Frog]

yes, we need to add 'a' to 'z' in as well. I'll assign it out to one of my team to fix immediately.

[Rotted Frog]

Well done. You get all the bonus points.

[OriginalGriff]

It was written as a follow up to Converting numbers to the word equivalent. [^] since we were getting a lot of "Roman numbers" homework in QA back then.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

[Nagy Vilmos]

So you'd moved off the booze by then; onto the class 'A' drugs. :laugh:

veni bibi saltavi

[OriginalGriff]

Class A++ I suspect... :~

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

[Nagy Vilmos]

Doing crack, heroin and meths is a stage people go through. Just don't do VB!

veni bibi saltavi

[Rotted Frog]

And it gets better... Just noticed the next class on from that one:

public class ZeroBasedAlphabetPositionMap
{
private static Dictionary<char, int> alphabet = new Dictionary<char, int>();

static ZeroBasedAlphabetPositionMap()
{
    alphabet.Add('A', 0);
    alphabet.Add('B', 1);
    alphabet.Add('C', 2);
    alphabet.Add('D', 3);
    alphabet.Add('E', 4);
    alphabet.Add('F', 5);
    alphabet.Add('G', 6);
    alphabet.Add('H', 7);
    alphabet.Add('I', 8);
    alphabet.Add('J', 9);
    alphabet.Add('K', 10);
    alphabet.Add('L', 11);
    alphabet.Add('M', 12);
    alphabet.Add('N', 13);
    alphabet.Add('O', 14);
    alphabet.Add('P', 15);
    alphabet.Add('Q', 16);
    alphabet.Add('R', 17);
    alphabet.Add('S', 18);
    alphabet.Add('T', 19);
    alphabet.Add('U', 20);
    alphabet.Add('V', 21);
    alphabet.Add('W', 22);
    alphabet.Add('X', 23);
    alphabet.Add('Y', 24);
    alphabet.Add('Z', 25);

}

public static int Position(char letter)
{
    return alphabet\[letter\];
}

}

[Lost User]

You should not pay developers by LOC :wtf:

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

[kmoorevs]

:thumbsup: Nice find and thanks for sharing! I feel better now! :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

[PIEBALDconsult]

How about adding another lookup that gets the uppercase equivalent of a lowercase letter?

[Sascha Lefevre]

Even more bonus points for a pointless lookup table for not being able to actually do a lookup :laugh:

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

[Lost User]

AlphabetPositionMap seems to have a brother called ZeroBasedAlphabetPositionMap[^]. Yes, it is missing lowercaps variants, meaning there should at least be four of these methods. And globalization is missed completely. Scheiß drauf.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

[PaulLinton]

I thought I had a more useless lookup table, but I was wrong

private static Dictionary alphabet = new Dictionary();
static AlphabetPositionMap()
{
alphabet['A'] = 'A';
alphabet['B'] = 'B';
// you get the idea
}

I am wrong because it is only a small step from this code to creating an Enigma machine in software, which I believe had some amount of use a few years back. Failed at being useless :sigh:

[V 0]

It's all in the wrist baby ;P

V.
(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)

[imagiro]

... the map is static...

[GuyThiebaut]

I've noticed that you do not cover lowercase numbers.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

[V 0]

There is a seperate uppercase number lookup table for that ! :laugh:

V.
(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)

[GuyThiebaut]

I was thinking more of something like "1".tolower might work.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens