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

Make a function with {a: 'b', b: 'c', etc} in a closure:-

let nextChar = (s => (
    "abcdefghijklmopqrstuvwxyza".split('')
    .reduce((a,b)=> (s[a]=b, b)), // make the lookup
c=> s[c] // the function returned
))({}); // parameter s, starts empty

usage:-

nextChar('a')

Adding uppercase and digits:-

let nextCh = (
    (alphabeta, s) => (
        [alphabeta, alphabeta.toUpperCase(), "01234567890"]
            .forEach(chars => chars.split('')
               .reduce((a,b) => (s[a]=b, b))), 
        c=> s[c] 
    )
)("abcdefghijklmopqrstuvwxyza", {});

p.s. In some versions of Javascript, you can use [...chars] instead of chars.split('')