Getting - Finding English Alphabets in Java using Java API (Inbuilt or Third Party)

[Azrael Noor]

Which API supports facility of getting English Alphabets (a, m , g etc)?

There are common examples given online

char aLetter = 'a';
        char zLetter = 'z'; 
        int characterNumber = 1;
        for(int count = (int)aLetter; count<= (int) zLetter; count++)
        {
            System.out.println( characterNumber++ + " - " + (char) count );
        }

char alphabet;
         for (alphabet='a'; alphabet <= 'z'; alphabet++) 
         { 
             System.out.println( alphabet); 
         } 

String englishAlphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
         char[] alphabetArray = englishAlphabet.toCharArray();
         for(int i = 0;i<alphabetArray.length;i++)
             System.out.println("" + alphabetArray[i]);

BUt is there any CLASS or API help to do so? like LANGUAGE.7THLETTER

[Winston Gutkowski]

Azrael Noor wrote:Which API supports facility of getting English Alphabets (a, m , g etc)?

None that I know of; and I'm not quite sure what it would be useful for except possibly for validating information from a known language.

The "English" alphabet isn't unique to English. Accented letters aside (and English contains many French words like 'blasé', which should, theoretically, be accented), it's used by the French, Italian, Welsh, Gaelic and Dutch and, with only a few additions: German, Spanish, Portugese, Polish and Scandinavian languages.

Winston

[Azrael Noor]

Winston Gutkowski wrote:

Azrael Noor wrote:Which API supports facility of getting English Alphabets (a, m , g etc)?

None that I know of; and I'm not quite sure what it would be useful for except possibly for validating information from a known language.

The "English" alphabet isn't unique to English. Accented letters aside (and English contains many French words like 'blasé', which should, theoretically, be accented), it's used by the French, Italian, Welsh, Gaelic and Dutch and, with only a few additions: German, Spanish, Portugese, Polish and Scandinavian languages.

Winston

Yups for specific validation i require. I do have other solution but i feel there may be one available like Calendar.Minutes, Hours, AM, PM or may be some Dictionary object

isn't A to Z (Just alphabet) unique to English?

[chris webster]

There's a Stack Overflow post about testing to see if a character belongs to a particular alphabet: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/810954/java-alphabets-in-different-languages

It's based on the various subsets of Unicode using Character.UnicodeBlock.

Not sure how you could distinguish between languages that use the same character set e.g. German and Finnish?, Norwegian/Danish?, English and various other languages?

[Paul Clapham]

I would really like to know the background of this question.

So often people come here with strange questions like this one, which appear to be fueled by misunderstanding or lack of comprehension, and when asked what they are trying to do they give some lame excuse like "It's a requirement of the system".

Well, my response to this question is "You don't need to do that."

However I might be wrong. If you can show me why you need to do it, then we might be able to produce an answer which is useful in terms of the actual question.

[Winston Gutkowski]

Azrael Noor wrote:isn't A to Z (Just alphabet) unique to English?

Did I not make it clear?

Winston Gutkowski wrote:The "English" alphabet isn't unique to English...

It's true that languages like Welsh and Italian may not use all the letters, but they're all based on the Latin alphabet (along with all the others I listed). English's main peculiarity it that it doesn't have accented letters for native words.

My advice: Trying to validate text simply based on an alphabet is likely to be a non-starter.

Winston

[Azrael Noor]

Paul Clapham wrote:I would really like to know the background of this question.

So often people come here with strange questions like this one, which appear to be fueled by misunderstanding or lack of comprehension, and when asked what they are trying to do they give some lame excuse like "It's a requirement of the system".

Well, my response to this question is "You don't need to do that."

However I might be wrong. If you can show me why you need to do it, then we might be able to produce an answer which is useful in terms of the actual question.

Mr Paul

Actually i was getting Single Alphabet Code from back end like i,e,u,j.

When i get a set of - i e yuu j alphabets, i have to do one task (Coderanch application is not taking alphabet yuu :P )

When i get a set of - d m f k alphabets, i have to do other task

What i did i hard coded Configuration with Split Characters ( i,e,u,j | d,m,f,k ) and put all that in different List and check if contains

Actually i do not wanna hard code all 15 characters For this logic or write 5 lines of code so i was thinking may be it is available in some API like ALPHABET[1] return A rather then writing of my own function.

and ya It's a requirement of the system :sleep: and must be lack of comprehension there :beerchug:

With Regards

[Azrael Noor]

Winston Gutkowski wrote:

Azrael Noor wrote:isn't A to Z (Just alphabet) unique to English?

Did I not make it clear?

Winston Gutkowski wrote:The "English" alphabet isn't unique to English...

It's true that languages like Welsh and Italian may not use all the letters, but they're all based on the Latin alphabet (along with all the others I listed). English's main peculiarity it that it doesn't have accented letters for native words.

My advice: Trying to validate text simply based on an alphabet is likely to be a non-starter.

Winston

I have no knowledge of Welsh and Latin

Trying to validate text simply based on an alphabet is likely to be a non-starter. - Advice Taken