This may be an embarrassing thing to admit, but I was momentarily stumped this morning when I had a need to iterate over the English alphabet with Java 1.5 ... I've been a Sun Microsystems Certified Java Programmer for 3 years now, yet this little thing got me!
Well, here's my solution, which I'm posting up now in hopes that someone with the same need may do a google search and find this post =)
char letter;
for (letter='a'; letter <= 'z'; letter++) { System.out.println( letter ); }
Simple, right!?
If you find this helpful, please leave a comment and let me know!