Trying to make a function who says the position for a letter in the alphabet

I can't figure out how to get this fuction to work. I need to use a letter as input, for example a, and the funkttion to return its position (1).

function h = postiton(a)

Alfabetet=['a';'b';'c';'d';'e';'f';'g';'h';'i';'j';'k';'l';'m';'n';'o';'p';'q';'r';'s';'t';'u';'v';'w';'x';'y';'z';];

h=find(Alfabetet==a))

end

How do i get this to work?

I want to write position(k) and get ans=11

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try this:

function test
    aPosition = postiton('a')

function h = postiton(theLetter)
    Alfabetet=['a';'b';'c';'d';'e';'f';'g';'h';'i';'j';'k';'l';'m';'n';'o';'p';'q';'r';'s';'t';'u';'v';'w';'x';'y';'z';];
    h = find(ismember(Alfabetet, theLetter));

[John]

This works if you use position('letter'). Can I rewrite it so that it will work with just position(letter).

Big thanks to you from sweden!

[Image Analyst]

Not if it's a literal but you can if it's a variable, like this:

a = 'c'; % Whatever letter you want.
aPosition = postiton(a) % or position() - however you want to spell it.