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Questions tagged [alphabetical]

Use this tag to describe the way of ordering a sequence in the same order as the alphabet

Alphabetical describes the way of ordering a sequence of strings (letters, words...) in the same order as the alphabet. For instance, a dictionary is ordered in the alphabetical order.

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Convert number to alphabet letter

I want to convert a number to its corresponding alphabet letter. For example: 1 = A 2 = B 3 = C Can this be done in javascript without manually creating the array? In php there is a range() function that creates the array automatically. Anything…
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How to sort an array of string alphabetically (case sensitive, nonstandard collation)

I need a c language code to sort some strings and it should be case sensitive and for the same letter in upper- and lower-cases, the lower-case must come first. For example the result of the sort for the following…
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return output of dictionary to alphabetical order

The following code prints out the word in the txt file and then how many instances there are of that word (e.g. a, 26) the problem is that it doesn't print it out in alphabetical order. Any help would be much appreciated import re def…
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Sort by multiple columns in bash

I have a file with 2 columns, "Name" and "Age", looking like this: Alex, 15 Mary, 12 Alex, 28 Zoe, 16 Alex, 17 I will sort by the first column in alphabetical order, using sort -t ',' -k1,1 filename.txt, but if there are same names, I want…
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alpha sort plugin: how to add 'shuffle' animation

I've implemented a Jquery plugin to identify and sort a collection of child elements wrapped in a parent. The plugin also, has a grouping capability. I am sort of lost on how to add in animations to the dom change. i was able to add in a basic…
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Convert letter to number in JavaScript

I would like to know how to convert each alphabetic character entered to a number. e.g. a=1, b=2 ,c=3 up to z=26 In C I had managed to do something similar, by taking a character input and displaying it as an integer. But I'm not sure how I would…
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Sort an array of alphabetic and numeric string-type elements ASC, but with numeric elements after alphabetic elements

I have an array of values which are either all-letters or all-numbers and need to sort them in an ascending fashion. Additionally, I want all-numeric values to be moved to the end of the array so that they occur after all of the non-numeric…
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How do I sort enum members alphabetically in Java?

I have an enum class like the following: public enum Letter { OMEGA_LETTER("Omega"), GAMMA_LETTER("Gamma"), BETA_LETTER("Beta"), ALPHA_LETTER("Alpha"), private final String description; Letter() { description =…
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How to display Contacts in alphabetic order in Listview

I have a custom List view and i need to display the contacts in Alphabetical order can u provide the sample code how can i achieve this?
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How to sort by length and then alphabetically

Assume I had the following Javascript array. How do you sort by length, then alphabetically? Assume the following array: var array = ["a", "aaa", "bb", "bbb", "c"]; When sorted it should produce: a, c, bb, aaa, bbb. Thank you in advance!
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ListView with Alphabet on Android

I want to do a listview on android and it contains an alphabet near of the list (like iphone application). I couldnt find any way to implement an list and having alphabets, when ı click on c letter list scrolling and start with the c Letter. Thanks
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How to get all the possible 3 letter permutations?

Possible Duplicate: Listing all permutations of a string/integer For example, aaa .. aaz .. aba .. abz .. aca .. acz .. azz .. baa .. baz .. bba .. bbz .. zzz Basically, imagine counting binary but instead of going from 0 to 1, it goes from a to…
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IntelliJ sort enum members

Is there any way to sort the member variables of an enum alphabetically in IntelliJ? I've been trying a bunch of different settings in the arrangement section but didn't have success. Could anyone maybe help me?
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how to sort a string alphabetically java

I want to sort a string in JAVA alphabetically, as follows Capital letter and lowercase letter followed AaBbCcDdEeFfGg. for example if I put AbaC return me AabC thanks!!
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Python - arranging words in alphabetical order

The program must print the name which is alphabetically the last one out of 8 elements. The names/words can be inputted in any way through code. I think I should be using lists and in range() here. I had an idea of comparing the…
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