“Auto increment” alphabet in Java?

Question

\"Auto increment\" alphabet in Java - is this possible? From A to Z without a third-party library?

Answer 1

for (char alphabet = 'a'; alphabet <= 'z'; alphabet++) {
    System.out.println(alphabet);
}

Use this for lowercase alphabets.

Answer 2

You are looking for something like this:

    for( int i = 'a'; i < 'z'; i++ )
        System.out.println((char)i); // Cast int to char

Answer 3

for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++)
  //whatever

Answer 4

Here is a piece of code to see what really is going on (or at least the print out :P):

for(int i = 0; i < 26; i++)
{
    System.out.println((char)('A' + i) + ":" + ('A' + i) + " : " + (char)('a' + i) + ":" + ('z' + i));
}