Generating an array of letters in the alphabet

Question

Is there an easy way to generate an array containing the letters of the alphabet in C#? It's not too hard to do it by hand, but I was wondering if there was a built in way to do this.

Answer 1

I don't think there is a built in way, but I think the easiest would be

  char[] alpha = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".ToCharArray(); 

Answer 2

C# 3.0 :

char[] az = Enumerable.Range('a', 'z' - 'a' + 1).Select(i => (Char)i).ToArray(); foreach (var c in az) {     Console.WriteLine(c); } 

yes it does work even if the only overload of Enumerable.Range accepts int parameters ;-)