{"id":25718,"date":"2022-12-13T00:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-convert-character-a-to-b-if-i-add-1-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T00:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:10:29","slug":"solved-convert-character-a-to-b-if-i-add-1-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-convert-character-a-to-b-if-i-add-1-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Convert character &#8216;A&#8217; to &#8216;B&#8217; if I add 1 [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-44394040\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"44394040\" data-parentid=\"44391485\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"3\" data-highest-scored=\"0\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"0\" itemprop=\"suggestedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Furthering Sergio&#8217;s answer, you can isolate the letter-ordinals and use modulo.<\/p>\n<pre><code>class String\n  def plus n\n    case self\n    when ('a'..'z')\n      (((ord - 97 + n) % 26) + 97).chr            #ord means self.ord\n    when ('A'..'Z')\n      (((ord - 65 + n) % 26) + 65).chr\n    else\n      raise \"single-letters only\"\n    end\n  end\nend\n\n'a'.plus 2 #=&gt; 'c'\n'z'.plus 1 #=&gt; 'a'\n'A'.plus 0 #=&gt; 'A'\n'Z'.plus 9 #=&gt; 'I'\n\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\".plus 1 #=&gt; test.rb:9:in `plus': single-letters only (RuntimeError)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Your question is unclear, but as alluded to in the comments by Stefan, you may want <code>'A' + 1 #=&gt; 'B'<\/code> notation. Ruby does allow an overwrite of <code>String#+<\/code>. But don&#8217;t do this, this is just to show you that you can:<\/p>\n<pre><code>class String\n  def +(n)\n   #code as above...\n  end\nend\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>then via syntactic sugar, you can do:<\/p>\n<pre><code>'a' + 2 #=&gt; 'c'\n'z' + 1 #=&gt; 'a'\n'A' + 0 #=&gt; 'A'\n'Z' + 9 #=&gt; 'I'\n\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\" + 1 #=&gt; test.rb:9:in `plus': single-letters only (RuntimeError)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Convert character &#8216;A&#8217; to &#8216;B&#8217; if I add 1 [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Furthering Sergio&#8217;s answer, you can isolate the letter-ordinals and use modulo. class String def plus n case self when (&#8216;a&#8217;..&#8217;z&#8217;) (((ord &#8211; 97 + n) % 26) + 97).chr #ord means self.ord when (&#8216;A&#8217;..&#8217;Z&#8217;) (((ord &#8211; 65 + n) % 26) + 65).chr else raise &#8220;single-letters only&#8221; end end end &#8216;a&#8217;.plus 2 #=&gt; &#8216;c&#8217; &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Convert character &#8216;A&#8217; to &#8216;B&#8217; if I add 1 [closed]\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-convert-character-a-to-b-if-i-add-1-closed\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Convert character &#8216;A&#8217; to &#8216;B&#8217; if I add 1 [closed]\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-25718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-ruby"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Convert character &#039;A&#039; to &#039;B&#039; if I add 1 [closed] - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-convert-character-a-to-b-if-i-add-1-closed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Convert character &#039;A&#039; to &#039;B&#039; if I add 1 [closed] - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Furthering Sergio&#8217;s answer, you can isolate the letter-ordinals and use modulo. class String def plus n case self when (&#039;a&#039;..&#039;z&#039;) (((ord - 97 + n) % 26) + 97).chr #ord means self.ord when (&#039;A&#039;..&#039;Z&#039;) (((ord - 65 + n) % 26) + 65).chr else raise &quot;single-letters only&quot; end end end &#039;a&#039;.plus 2 #=&gt; &#039;c&#039; ... 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