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Geoffrey wrote:

| ... The dream job!  You're confused though, it's the Java that is
| annoying you.  I mean come on, try subtracting a character from a
| character in order to get the numeric difference.  C ? yes, Java, I
|  don't think so..
|
Maybe i'm misunderstanding the problem, but are you saying that this
is annoying:

Character.getNumericValue('z')-Character.getNumericValue('a')

Lengthy yes... but doable (and not that hard!)

:)
Jason
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