Diagonal Alphabet

Question

Given no input, your task is to generate the following:

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

Nonvisually, your task is to generate each letter in the alphabet, with spaces before it equal to its position in the alphabet minus one.

If you print this, it must appear like the above. Extraneous whitespace that does not affect appearance, as well as a trailing newline, is allowed. You can use all lowercase, or all uppercase.

You may also return this from a function as per usual rules, either as a string with newlines, or a list of strings.

This is code-golf, so shortest answer in bytes wins!

Answer 1

Python 3, 41 bytes

for n in range(26):print(" "*n+chr(n+97))

Answer 2

i386 Bootsector, 19 bytes (Technically 512 due to padding)

Here is a hexdump of the program without padding:

0000-0010:  b4 0e b3 61-88 d8 cd 10-b0 0a cd 10-fe c3 80 fb  ...a.... ........
0000-0013:  7b 75 f1                                         {u.

And here is the original assembly:

mov ah, 0x0e
mov bl, 'a'
l:
    mov al, bl
    int 0x10
    mov al, 0xa
    int 0x10
    inc bl
    cmp bl, '{'
    jne l

Very simple. Diagonal works by printing a newline without a carriage return.

Answer 3

Rust, 59 bytes

for(i,l)in('a'..'{').enumerate(){println!("{l:>i$}",i=i+1)}

Answer 4

Vyxal 3 j, 5 bytes

nƛmꜝ«

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Woah a Vyxal 3 Answer!

Answer 5

QBIC, 27 bytes

[26|?space$(a-1)+chr$(a+96)

Explanation

[26|          FOR a = 1 to 26
?space$(a-1)  PRINT a-1 spaces (SPACES$ is a QBasic function that prints x spaces)
+chr$(a+96)      and a char representation of a+96

Answer 6

Tcl, 52 bytes

set i 96;time {puts [format %[incr j]c [incr i]]} 26

time is really a tool for measuring time spent, but it's also handy for repetition of code. Indentation and letter are advanced in each iteration. Ascii code i needs preset to one-before-first-letter, j will be auto-set to 1 on first incr.

If run in an interactive tclsh, the time would also output timings, but if the line is in a script, then it's silent, except for the diagonal.

Answer 7

ZX Spectrum BASIC, 29 bytes

FOR i=NOT PI TO VAL "25": LPRINT TAB i;CHR$ (i+VAL "97"): NEXT i

Numeric literals carry a 6-byte penalty, so using VAL saves me 3 bytes (VAL is a 1-byte token). Note: The ZX Spectrum's output area is only 22 lines high, so I'm sending the output to the printer instead.

Answer 8

T-SQL, 63 bytes

DECLARE @ INT=0a:PRINT SPACE(@)+CHAR(@+65)SET @+=1IF @<26GOTO a

Written more conventionally, that would be:

DECLARE @ INT=0
a:
    PRINT SPACE(@) + CHAR(@+65)
    SET @ += 1
IF @<26 GOTO a

Tested and working on SQL Server 2012.

Answer 9

Japt, 10 9 bytes

Saved 1 byte thanks to @Shaggy

;C£RiXiYî

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Explanation:

;C£RiXiYî
;C          // Lowercase alphabet
  £         // Map; At each char:
   R        //   Newline
    iX      //   Insert: X (Iterative char)
      iYî   //   Insert: " " repeated Y (index) times

By default, i inserts the target char at index 0. So, RiXiYî becomes Yî +X+R.

Answer 10

Nano, 186 77 bytes

M- represents the alt key

M-ia
 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

Explanation

I've seen a few Vim answers on this site so I thought I would do a nano answer. Its not nearly as terse as the Vim answers but its still better than typing out the whole thing.

This is pretty simple (a lot simpler than my original answer). M-i sets the auto-indent on. This means that every line will copy the indentation of the last. So we start with a and every line add a space and a letter all the way through.

Answer 11

Mathematica, 39 Bytes

Grid@DiagonalMatrix@Alphabet[]/. 0->" "

This has trailing whitespace.

Explanation:

                    Alphabet[]          - Create a list of the alphabet
     DiagonalMatrix@                    - Use that as the diagonal of a matrix
                              /. 0->" " - Replaces the 0's with whitespace
Grid@                                   - Then turn it into a 2D grid

Answer 12

braingasm, 20 bytes

26[#[32.]97+#+.10.>]

26 times, print (.) a space (32) # (current position on the tape) times; increase cell (+) by 97, then by #; and print the current cell value, along with a newline (10); then go to next cell (>).

Answer 13

AWK, 40 bytes

BEGIN{for(;++i<27;)printf"%"i"c\n",i+96}

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I'm curious if there's a shorter way to do this in AWK.

Answer 14

Perl 6, 25 bytes

{" " «x«^26 Z~'a'..'z'}

This function returns a list of the required strings: "a", " b", " c", ...

^26 is a list of the numbers from 0 to 25. «x« is the string-replication hyperoperator that maps each element n of its right-hand side to the left-hand side replicated n times, producing the list "", " ", " ", .... That list is then zipped with string concatenation (the Z~ operator) with the range of letters from 'a' to 'z'.

Answer 15

Scala, 41 bytes

('a'to'z').map(a=>println(" "*(a-'a')+a))

Previous answer: 45 bytes

(0 to 25).map(a=>printf("%s%c\n"," "*a,97+a))

It is 1 byte shorter than

(0 to 25).map(a=>println(" "*a+(97+a).toChar))

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Answer 16

JAVASCRIPT

Option 1: 59 bytes

a='';for(i=0;i<26;)a+=''.padEnd(i++)+(i+9).toString(36)+`
`

Option 2: 60 bytes

a='';for(i=0;i<26;)a+=' '.repeat(i++)+(i+9).toString(36)+`
`

Option 3: 61 bytes

a='',i=0;while(i<26)a+=' '.repeat(i++)+(i+9).toString(36)+`
`

Option 4: 67 bytes

a='';for(i=0;i<26;)a+=' '.repeat(i++)+String.fromCharCode(96+i)+`
`

Option 5: 68 bytes

[...Array(26)].map(_=>' '.repeat(++i-10)+i.toString(36),i=9).join`
`

Answer 17

Bash, 38 36 35 bytes

printf "%*s
" `echo $[++i]\ {a..z}`

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2 bytes less thanks to @DigitalTrauma

1 byte less thanks to @NahuelFouilleul

"%*s\n" takes padding as an argument. $((++i))\ {a..z} for each letter increment and prepend i plus space (arithmetic expansion)

Answer 18

R, 56 bytes

for(i in 1:26){cat(rep(" ",i-1),LETTERS[i],'\n',sep='')}

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Prints i-1 spaces and the ith letter of the alphabet, plus a newline, 26 times.

Outgolfed by Giuseppe (47 bytes), user2390246 (40 bytes), and Sven Hohenstein (37 bytes), but this is the only answer (so far) that doesn't use diag.

Answer 19

Pyth, 9 8 bytes

.e+*dkbG

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Explanation

.e     G  For each element of 'abc...z'...
   *dk    Take a string of spaces with length equal to the index...
  +   b   Add the letter.

Answer 20

Julia, 42 bytes

for i=0:25 println(" "^i,Char[97+i][1])end

Pretty straight forward, print space and character.

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Answer 21

Ruby, 18 bytes

puts [*?a..?z]*?\v

Does not work on TIO, link for reference:

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Answer 22

Pyth, 11 bytes

j.b+*dNY26G

Explanation:

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j.b+*dNY26G   expects no input

j             joins on new line
 .b           for...in loop, uses two iterator variables
   +          joins *dN and Y
    *dN       repeats d (space) N times, where N is one of .b's iterating variables
       Y      another one of .b's iterating variables
        26    the array being iterated for N,.b automatically takes the unary range
          G   initialized to the lowercase alphabet, the array being iterated for Y

Answer 23

SOGL V0.12, 2 bytes

z╝

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z   push the alphabet
 ╝  convert to a diagonal array
    implicitly output as a newline joined string

Answer 24

TI-Basic, 71 69 bytes

"       
For(I,1,26
Disp sub(Ans+Ans+Ans+Ans,1,I)+sub("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",I,1
End

Answer 25

Pyth, 13 bytes

I've noticed that I've been getting better at these, but Dave or Mr. Xcoder will school me any day of the week.

Update: Pyth tester is down, rip back up.

#p*dt=hZhG=tG

Explanation:

#         Loop until error
 p*dt=hZ  Print without newline: " " times ++Z - 1 (Z defaults to 0) (Could have used + instead of p, but it's easier to explain)
 hG       Implicit print with newline: The first character of the alphabet
 =tG      Remove the first letter in the alphabet variable

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Answer 26

Befunge-98 (PyFunge), 30 bytes

1+:0\:'`+\' \k:>:#,_$:'␚-!k@a,

Where ␚ is a literal substitute character

Every line has 3 leading spaces

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Answer 27

uBASIC, 36 bytes

Anonymous function that takes no input and outputs to the console.

0ForI=0To25:?Tab(I);Chr$(65+I):NextI

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Answer 28

PowerShell, 35 bytes

$i=97;0..25|%{" "*$_+[char]$i;$i++}

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Pipes an array of 0 through 25 to ForEach-Object, which cycles through ascii codes and prefixes with a space multiplied by an incrementing variable.

Answer 29

Mouse-2002, 43 bytes

(A.Z1+<^A.B:(B.^" "B.1-B:)A.97+!'"!"A.1+A:)

Needs to be run in the Mouse-2002 Interpreter REPL. Working interpreter can be found here.

Answer 30

Python 3, 51 bytes

print("\n".join(" "*n+chr(n+97)for n in range(26)))