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Geoffrey wrote:

| Jason Vinson wrote:
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|> Geoffrey wrote:
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|> | ... 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!)
|
|
| No, character - character = numeric:
|
| intval = '5' - '2';
|
| You cheated, and did the conversion first as well as twice. :)
|
You mentioned "Java, I don't think so...", so I just thought i'd share
a *possible* solution.

Personally, I rarely have to do character value arithmetic, so I don't
see it as that big of a problem.

To each his own though,
Jason
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