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@NogDogDec 22.2005 — #
assigning letters to numbers
hi, i want to know if ther’s a way to assign letters to numbers????? e.g.
a=1,
b=2,
c=3 and so on and so on.
and then get an input from a textbox which is a word/name convert it to these numbers and add it all up (and may b convert it to a variable) to echo the result…… i’m not sure if this is possible and its not reli that needed but it’dd really help if i could do it……. does anyone have a way to do this and is it even possible…….
thx, JAM
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@NogDogDec 22.2005 — #[code=php]
function get_char_value($char)
{
$char = strtoupper($char);
if(preg_match('/[A-Z]/', $char))
{
return(ord($char) - 64);
}
if(preg_match('/[0-9]/', $char))
{
return($char);
}
else
{
return(0); // all non-alphanumerics will be 0
}
}
$string = "This is a test.";
$count = 0;
for($i=0; $i<strlen($string); $i++)
{
$count += get_char_value($string{$i});
}
echo "<p>Total: $count</p>n";
[/code]