What is a method that can be used to increment letters?

Question

Does anyone know of a Javascript library (e.g. underscore, jQuery, MooTools, etc.) that offers a method of incrementing a letter?

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Answer 1

What if the given letter is z? Here is a better solution. It goes A,B,C... X,Y,Z,AA,AB,... etc. Basically it increments letters like the column ID's of an Excel spreadsheet.

nextChar('yz'); // returns "ZA"

    function nextChar(c) {
        var u = c.toUpperCase();
        if (same(u,'Z')){
            var txt = '';
            var i = u.length;
            while (i--) {
                txt += 'A';
            }
            return (txt+'A');
        } else {
            var p = "";
            var q = "";
            if(u.length > 1){
                p = u.substring(0, u.length - 1);
                q = String.fromCharCode(p.slice(-1).charCodeAt(0));
            }
            var l = u.slice(-1).charCodeAt(0);
            var z = nextLetter(l);
            if(z==='A'){
                return p.slice(0,-1) + nextLetter(q.slice(-1).charCodeAt(0)) + z;
            } else {
                return p + z;
            }
        }
    }
    
    function nextLetter(l){
        if(l<90){
            return String.fromCharCode(l + 1);
        }
        else{
            return 'A';
        }
    }
    
    function same(str,char){
        var i = str.length;
        while (i--) {
            if (str[i]!==char){
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

// below is simply for the html sample interface and is unrelated to the javascript solution

var btn = document.getElementById('btn');
var entry = document.getElementById('entry');
var node = document.createElement("div");
node.id = "node";

btn.addEventListener("click", function(){
  node.innerHTML = '';
  var textnode = document.createTextNode(nextChar(entry.value));
  node.appendChild(textnode);
  document.body.appendChild(node);
});

enter