Print Out the Alphabet

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Problem

You task is to print out the lower case letters of the aplhabet. You are only allowed to use one char variable and one println statement inside of a for loop.

 

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Solution

To get the next letter in the alphabet you can add 1 each time to the char variable.

int numLetters = 26;
char letter = 'a';

for(int i = 0; i < numLetters; i++)
{
    System.out.println(letter);
    letter = letter + 1;
}

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