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Say for instance that I wanted to read a line of text containing
one character and output
that line in terms of the postion of the letters in the 
alphabet.

ie  like:

 a
 b
 c
 d
 e
 f
 g
 h
 i
 j
 k
 l
 m
 n
 o
 p
 q

would be printed as:
1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17 

One way I visualized doing this is to read the alphabet into an array
such as:

alph[a] = 1
alph[b] = 2
alph[c] = 3
...

...
alph[q] = 20

and then read the line of text into another array by

{
line_arr[NR] = $1
}

 and then using something like

for (i=i; i<=NR; i++) {
alph_pos[i] = alph[line_arr[i]]
print alph_pos[i]
}

However this doesn't work.

Does any body have any suggestions?

Thanks in anticipation.

Tony Scott