Question

I am trying to create an associative array with alphabets as keys and 1 to 26 as values which I need to use to find the offset of alphabet from 1. So array[‘a’] would give me 1 and array[‘c’] would give me 3. Is there a way to declare such an array without typing in all characters 1 by 1 as in

array(‘a’ => 1, ‘b’ =>2, ‘c’=>3 …. and so on

Or is there another way to get offset for alphabet from 1 to 26

Answer 1

You could do this using array_combine() and range():

array_combine(range('a', 'z'), range(1, 26));