Finding the English alphabetic order of a character

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1637908.aspx

This was an interesting post to me, as I haven't peeked around .Net's simple data types much. I came up with the following:

C#:

int GetOrdinal(char c)
{
return ((c.CompareTo('a') < 0) ? c.CompareTo('a') + 33 :
c.CompareTo('a') + 1);

}

VB.Net

Function GetOrdinal(ByVal c As Char) As Integer
Return IIf((c.CompareTo("a"c) < 0), c.CompareTo("a"c) + 33, c.CompareTo("a"c) + 1)

End Function