You could do something like this, based on the ascii values of the characters:
char[26] alphabet;
for(int i = 0; i <26; i++)
{
alphabet[i] = (char)(i+65); //65 is the offset for capital A in the ascaii table
}
(See the table here.) You are just casting from the int value of the character to the character value - but, that only works for ascii characters not different languages etc.
EDIT:
As suggested by Mehrdad in the comment to a similar solution, it's better to do this:
alphabet[i] = (char)(i+(int)('A'));
This casts the A character to it's int value and then increments based on this, so it's not hardcoded.
Assuming you mean the letters of the English alphabet...
for ( int i = 0; i < 26; i++ )
{
Console.WriteLine( Convert.ToChar( i + 65 ) );
}
Console.WriteLine( "Press any key to continue." );
Console.ReadKey();
Note also, the string has a operator[] which returns a Char, and is an IEnumerable<char>, so for most purposes, you can use a string as a char[]. Hence:
string alpha = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVQXYZ";
for (int i =0; i < 26; ++i)
{
Console.WriteLine(alpha[i]);
}
foreach(char c in alpha)
{
Console.WriteLine(c);
}
//generate a list of alphabet using csharp
//this recurcive function will return you
//a string with position of passed int
//say if pass 0 will return A ,1-B,2-C,.....,26-AA,27-AB,....,701-ZZ,702-AAA,703-AAB,...
static string CharacterIncrement(int colCount)
{
int TempCount = 0;
string returnCharCount = string.Empty;
if (colCount <= 25)
{
TempCount = colCount;
char CharCount = Convert.ToChar((Convert.ToInt32('A') + TempCount));
returnCharCount += CharCount;
return returnCharCount;
}
else
{
var rev = 0;
while (colCount >= 26)
{
colCount = colCount - 26;
rev++;
}
returnCharCount += CharacterIncrement(rev-1);
returnCharCount += CharacterIncrement(colCount);
return returnCharCount;
}
}
//--------this loop call this function---------//
int i = 0;
while (i <>
{
string CharCount = string.Empty;
CharCount = CharacterIncrement(i);
i++;
}
I wrote this to get the MS excel column code (A,B,C, ..., Z, AA, AB, ..., ZZ, AAA, AAB, ...) based on a 1-based index. (Of course, switching to zero-based is simply leaving off the column--; at the start.)
public static String getColumnNameFromIndex(int column)
{
column--;
String col = Convert.ToString((char)('A' + (column % 26)));
while (column >= 26)
{
column = (column / 26) -1;
col = Convert.ToString((char)('A' + (column % 26))) + col;
}
return col;
}