Print the Greek alphabet!

Question

Fairly obviously, you have to print the Greek alphabet. But I thought I'd make it slightly more interesting, so there's a twist: when your program is ran with an argument (anything), it should output the Greek alphabet in lowercase.

Information

1. Greek alphabet (Capitals): ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
2. Greek alphabet (Lowercase): αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

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Rules/Requirements

• Each submission must be a full program.
• Builtins to print the Greek alphabet are not permitted
• Standard loopholes apply
• You must print exactly what is shown.

Scoring

Programs are scored according to bytes. If you are using a character set different to UTF-8 please specify. Try to get the least bytes out of everyone, this is code-golf!

Test cases

./program
==> ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ

./program 1
==> αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

./program 'lower'
==> αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

./program 123897883421
==> αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

./program ""
==> αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

greek();
==> ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ

greek("blah");
==> αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

greek(123);
==> αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

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Answer 1

Python, 81 Bytes

lambda*x,b="αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω":(b.upper(),b)[x>()]

-6 from TheThonnu for using *.
-2 from TheThonnu for telling me that the brackets are unneeded.
-28 from mousetail for using an uppercasing function.
-7 from TheThonnu for assigning the greek letters to a variable.

Answer 2

Raku, 53 bytes

{say @*ARGS??.lc!!$_}([~] flat 'Α'..'Ρ','Σ'..'Ω')

Try it online!

• [~] flat 'Α'..'Ρ','Σ'..'Ω' constructs the uppercase Greek alphabet.
• { say @*ARGS ?? .lc !! $_ } is an anonymous function which receives the uppercase alphabet as an argument. If there are any command-line arguments, the alphabet is lowercased and printed, otherwise it is printed as-is.

Answer 3

Thunno 2 J, 17 16 15 14 bytes

24Ė17Ɗ913+C¤?L

-1 thanks to @TheThonnu :), saved 1 extra by using different method.

Explanation:

24Ė              # range [0, 24]
   17Ɗ           # remove index 17
      913+       # add 913 to each
          C      # convert to character array
           ¤?    # if there is input:
             L   #   convert to lowercase (vectorizes)
                 # J flag joins character array

Thunno 2 isn't on ATO yet, but I have confirmed that this works on my machine for both the input and no input versions.

Answer 4

Japt -P, 17 bytes

25od913+H*NÊ fÏÉ7

Test it

Explanation

25o                 map each n in range [0, 25):
   d                  convert the following codepoint to a character:
    913                 n + 913
       +H*NÊ            + (number of inputs * 32)
             fÏ     keep elements where the following is truthy:
               É7     subtract 17 from the index 
                      (if index is 17, this will be 0 = falsy)
-P                  P flag joins the array to a string

The cool part of this is fÏÉ7: É7 transforms to -17 by using the shortcut for -1 (i.e. decrement). The regular way of doing this would be something like f϶17 which is one byte longer.

Answer 5

Python 2, 108 bytes

#coding=iso-8859-7
import sys;print'αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω'if~-len(sys.argv)else'ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ'

Terribly golfed, maybe :(

And no, I can't use A.lower().

Thanks to 13285 (alexwlchan) for -11 bytes.

Answer 6

Mathematica, 91 bytes

Print@{#&,ToLowerCase}[[Length@$ScriptCommandLine]][""<>"Α"~CharacterRange~"Ω"~Drop~{18}]

Script. Just takes the character range from Α to Ω, removes U+03A2/ς, either converts to lowercase or doesn't, and prints.

Answer 7

Perl, 39 + 3 (-C2 flag) = 44 42 bytes

 perl -C2 -E 'say map{chr$_+954-!@ARGV*32}-9..7,9..15'

Answer 8

JavaScript, 95 bytes

95 bytes, but only 71 characters. Byte counter. Using @Neil s way to determine if arguments are passed.

(...a)=>'ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ'[`to${a.length?'Low':'Upp'}erCase`]()

Answer 9

Java 7, 176 bytes

class M{public static void main(String[]a){System.out.print(a.length>0?"αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω":"ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ");}}

Java 8, 173 bytes

interface M{static void main(String[]a){System.out.print(a.length>0?"αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω":"ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ");}}

Answer 10

Groovy Script, 54 51 bytes

((913..937)-930).each{print((char)(args?it+32:it))}

Edit

Switched from 913..937 and it==930?: to (913..937)-930

Answer 11

PHP, 79 bytes

for($i=944-32*!--$argc;$i++-9&31;$i+=$i%32==1)echo html_entity_decode("&#$i;");

generates unicode html entities and decodes them. Run with -r.

Answer 12

Pip, 21 20 bytes

C:913+32*#g+Y,24RM17

This is a memorable day. Pip has tied beaten Jelly!¹

_{¹ And lost to two other golflangs, but whatever.}

Try it online!

Explanation

             ,25      Numbers 0 through 24
                RM17  Remove 17 (ς)
            Y         Yank (to get correct order of operations)
  913                 Char code of capital alpha
      32*#g           32 times number of cmdline args (must be 0 or 1)
     +     +          Add everything up
C:                    Convert to characters (using the compute-and-assign metaoperator to
                        lower the precedence of C)

Answer 13

MATLAB, 35 bytes

@(x)disp(char((913:937)+32*nargin))

Pretty self-explainatory, I think.

Answer 14

PowerShell, 94 bytes

param($n)$k=((0..16)+(18..24)|%{[char]($_+913)})-join'';if($n){$k.tolower()}else{$k.toupper()}

Try it online!

Answer 15

Excel, 48 bytes

=CONCAT(UNICHAR(ROW(1:24)*19/18+944-(A1="")*32))

Alternatively, you could put the upper case alphabet in B2 and use the formula below for a combined 47 bytes (or more depending on how you account for multiple cells)

=IF(A1="",B2,LOWER(B2))

Answer 16

APL, 27 bytes

{⎕UCS(912+32×0∊⍴⍵)+18~⍨⍳25}

The program switched to uppercase, when empty array or empty string is received. Unfortunately, it is technically impossible to distinguish them.

Answer 17

Scala, 171 bytes

Modified from @Value Ink's Ruby solution.

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Golfed version. Try it online!

object Main{def main(args:Array[String])=println((if(args.nonEmpty)('α'to'ω').toSet.diff(Set('ς')).toList else('Α'to'Ρ').toList++('Σ'to 'Ω').toList).mkString(" "))}

Ungolfed version. Try it online!

object Main {
  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val result = if (args.nonEmpty) ('α' to 'ω').toSet.diff(Set('ς')).toList
                 else ('Α' to 'Ρ').toList ++ ('Σ' to 'Ω').toList
    println(result.mkString(" "))
  }
}

Answer 18

Perl under Windows -- console has no Unicode support -- (42 bytes, including spaces)

This is not my solution, I am just merely adapting the Perl solution of Denis Ibaev above, to Windows console Perl.

perl -E"say map{chr$_+151-!@ARGV*24}1..24"
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
$ perl -E"say map{chr$_+151-!@ARGV*24}1..24" with one or many arguments
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψ

The console page code must be Greek of course:

chcp 737

^{NOTE: Just a small idea. On this page I can see that some of the answers use CHARACTERS that seem to been Unicode above 255. Therefore those characters take at least 2 bytes to code (perhaps 4 if one is using a console using 32bits Unicode chars?). Would not it be better if the contest measure was the CHARACTER unit (being Unicode or ASCII or EBCDIC ou whatever) rather than just BYTES? Would not it be simpler and more unifying (wonder if this adjectif exists in English, "unificateur" in French)?}

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Previous code in error: Does not print lowercase omega.

Corrected code (70 chars) :

perl -E"$i=!@ARGV+0;@a=73;pop@a if$i;say map{chr$_+151-$i*24}1..24,@a"
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
perl -E"$i=!@ARGV+0;@a=73;pop@a if$i;say map{chr$_+151-$i*24}1..24,@a" foo
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψω

^{I know we are not supposed to print the 'end-of-word' sigma form ('ς') but as it is a mispelling error in ancient Greek to use regular sigma ('σ') at the end of a lowercase word, I choose to print it, as the tittle of this puzzle is "Print the Greek alphabet" and that this character is part of it...}