Converting Letters to Numbers in C

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This is a way that I feel is better than the switch method, and yet is standards compliant (does not assume ASCII):

#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>

/* returns -1 if c is not an alphabetic character */
int c_to_n(char c)
{
    int n = -1;
    static const char * const alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
    char *p = strchr(alphabet, toupper((unsigned char)c));

    if (p)
    {
        n = p - alphabet;
    }

    return n;
}

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