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?

I would like to be able to do somet

Answer 1

This is really old. But I needed this functionality and none of the solutions are optimal for my use case. I wanted to generate a, b, c...z, aa,ab...zz, aaa... . This simple recursion does the job.

function nextChar(str) {
if (str.length == 0) {
    return 'a';
}
var charA = str.split('');
if (charA[charA.length - 1] === 'z') {
    return nextID(str.substring(0, charA.length - 1)) + 'a';
} else {
    return str.substring(0, charA.length - 1) +
        String.fromCharCode(charA[charA.length - 1].charCodeAt(0) + 1);
}
};