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Re: Got a tip ?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg97871] Re: Got a tip ?
• From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:32:10 -0500 (EST)

On 3/23/09 at 4:05 AM, Tekcitizen at hotmail.com (Fabrizio) wrote:

>I want to write a function that translates its argument (which is a
>letter of the alphabet) into a numerical value.

>f[a] = 1 f[b] = 2

Use the built-in function ToCharacterCode, i.e.,

In[2]:= First@ToCharacterCode["a"]

Out[2]= 97