[ale] Introduction

[Geoffrey]

Fletch wrote:
>>>>>>"Jason" == Jason Vinson <vinson.lists at charter.net> writes:
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>     Jason> Maybe i'm misunderstanding the problem, but are you saying
>     Jason> that this is annoying:
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>     Jason> Character.getNumericValue('z')-Character.getNumericValue('a')
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>     Jason> Lengthy yes... but doable (and not that hard!)
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> *cough*Perl*cough*
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> ord('z') - ord('a')

No, no, character - character = integer... :)

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Until later, Geoffrey