How to convert an alphanumeric phone number to digits

Question

UPDATE:

The final version of my utility looks like this:

StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();

for(char c : inLetters.toLowerCase(         


        

Answer 1

How about simply:

   String convert(String inLetters) {
      String digits = "22233344455566677778889999";
      String alphas = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
      String result = "";
      for (char c : inLetters.toLowerCase().toCharArray()) {
          int pos = alphas.indexOf(c);
          result += (pos == -1 ? c : digits.charAt(pos));
      }
      return result;
   }