Answer to Question #247255 in Python for Raju

Question

Secret Message - 2

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.

a b c d e f g h i j

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

k l m n o p q r

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

s t u v w x y z

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

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[:-1])
#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()