Answer to Question #220919 in Python for Siva

Question

Given a string, write a program to print a secret message that replaces characters with numbers 'a' with 1, 'b' with 2, ..., 'z' with 26 where characters are separated by '-'.

Note: You need to replace both uppercase and lowercase characters. You can ignore replacing all characters that are not letters.

abcdefghij12345678910

klmnopqr1112131415161718

stuvwxyz1920212223242526Input

The input will be a string in the single line containing spaces and letters (both uppercase and lowercase).Output

The output should be a single lline.

Explanation

For example, if the given input is "python", "p" should replaced with "16", similarly"y" with "25","t" with "20","h" with "8","o" with "15","n" with "14". So the output should be "16-25-20-8-15-14".

Input is python learning

Output should be 16-25-20-8-15-14 12-5-1-18-14-9-14-7

Answer 1

def main():
    #Read string
    inputString = input("Enter string: ")
    outputString=""
    for letter in inputString:
        number=getNumber(letter)
        if(number!=-1):
            outputString+=str(number)+"-"
        else:
            outputString+=letter




    print(outputString)
#This function convert letter to number
def getNumber(letter):
    alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    for i in range(0,len(alphabet)):
        if letter.islower() and letter==alphabet[i]:
            return i+1
        if letter.isupper() and letter==alphabet[i].upper():
            return i+1
    return -1


main()