How to generate an array of alphabet in jQuery?
In Ruby I can do ('a'..'z').to_a and to get ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', ... 'z'].
Do jQuery or Javascript provide a similar construct?
Solution 1:
Personally I think the best is:
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('');
Concise, effective, legible, and simple!
EDIT: I have decided, that since my answer is receiving a fair amount of attention to add the functionality to choose specific ranges of letters.
function to_a(c1 = 'a', c2 = 'z') {
a = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('');
return (a.slice(a.indexOf(c1), a.indexOf(c2) + 1));
}
console.log(to_a('b', 'h'));Solution 2:
A short ES6 version:
const alphabet = [...'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'];
console.log(alphabet);Solution 3:
You can easily make a function to do this for you if you'll need it a lot
function genCharArray(charA, charZ) {
var a = [], i = charA.charCodeAt(0), j = charZ.charCodeAt(0);
for (; i <= j; ++i) {
a.push(String.fromCharCode(i));
}
return a;
}
console.log(genCharArray('a', 'z')); // ["a", ..., "z"]