Better way to generate array of all letters in the alphabet

Question

Right now I\'m doing

for (char c = \'a\'; c <= \'z\'; c++) {
    alphabet[c - \'a\'] = c;
}

but is there a better way to do it? Similar

Answer 1

Define any languages an enum, and call getAlphabet();

char[] armenianAlphabet = getAlphabet(LocaleLanguage.ARMENIAN);
char[] russianAlphabet = getAlphabet(LocaleLanguage.RUSSIAN);

// get uppercase alphabet 
char[] currentAlphabet = getAlphabet(true);
    
System.out.println(armenianAlphabet);
System.out.println(russianAlphabet);
System.out.println(currentAlphabet);

result

I/System.out: աբգդեզէըթժիլխծկհձղճմյնշոչպջռսվտրցւփքօֆ

I/System.out: абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя

I/System.out: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

private char[] getAlphabet(){
    return getAlphabet(false);
}

private char[] getAlphabet(boolean flagToUpperCase){
    Locale locale = getResources().getConfiguration().locale;
    LocaleLanguage language = LocaleLanguage.getLocalLanguage(locale);
    return getAlphabet(language, flagToUpperCase);
}

private char[] getAlphabet(LocaleLanguage localeLanguage, boolean flagToUpperCase){
    if (localeLanguage == null)
        localeLanguage = LocaleLanguage.ENGLISH;

    char firstLetter = localeLanguage.getFirstLetter();
    char lastLetter = localeLanguage.getLastLetter();
    int alphabetSize = lastLetter - firstLetter + 1;

    char[] alphabet = new char[alphabetSize];

    for (int index = 0; index < alphabetSize; index++ ){
        alphabet[index] = (char) (index + firstLetter);
    }

    if (flagToUpperCase){
        alphabet = new String(alphabet).toUpperCase().toCharArray();
    }

    return alphabet;
}

private enum LocaleLanguage{
    ARMENIAN(new Locale("hy"), 'ա', 'ֆ'),
    RUSSIAN(new Locale("ru"), 'а','я'),
    ENGLISH(new Locale("en"), 'a','z');

    private final Locale mLocale;
    private final char mFirstLetter;
    private final char mLastLetter;

    LocaleLanguage(Locale locale, char firstLetter, char lastLetter) {
        this.mLocale = locale;
        this.mFirstLetter = firstLetter;
        this.mLastLetter = lastLetter;
    }

    public Locale getLocale() {
        return mLocale;
    }

    public char getFirstLetter() {
        return mFirstLetter;
    }

    public char getLastLetter() {
        return mLastLetter;
    }

    public String getDisplayLanguage(){
        return getLocale().getDisplayLanguage();
    }

    public String getDisplayLanguage(LocaleLanguage locale){
        return getLocale().getDisplayLanguage(locale.getLocale());
    }

    @Nullable
    public static LocaleLanguage getLocalLanguage(Locale locale){
        if (locale == null)
            return LocaleLanguage.ENGLISH;

        for (LocaleLanguage localeLanguage : LocaleLanguage.values()){
            if (localeLanguage.getLocale().getLanguage().equals(locale.getLanguage()))
                return localeLanguage;
        }

        return null;
    }
}

Answer 2

char[] abc = new char[26];

for(int i = 0; i<26;i++) {
    abc[i] = (char)('a'+i);
}

Answer 3

Finally you are getting a char array with alphabet. Why did you do so hard way using a loop ?

It is just

char[] alphabet=new char[]{'a','b',.........,'z'}

Answer 4

I think that this ends up a little cleaner, you don't have to deal with the subtraction and indexing:

char[] alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".toCharArray();

Answer 5

Simplicity is a virtue. Use this naturally readable array:

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'};

Answer 6

Using Java 8 streams

  char [] alphabets = Stream.iterate('a' , x -> (char)(x + 1))
            .limit(26)
            .map(c -> c.toString())
            .reduce("", (u , v) -> u + v).toCharArray();