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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Strings
Date: 2000/05/28
Date: 2000-05-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8gpq2n$oj0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000527160256.22891.00000308@ng-fw1.aol.com

In article <20000527160256.22891.00000308@ng-fw1.aol.com>,
  maggiejohn@aol.com (MaggieJohn) wrote:
> Loop through your string and check that each character is
>between 'a' and 'z'
> or 'A' and 'Z'.   Are you familiar with ASCII codes?   Your
> string is made up
> of ASCII codes.   Some are for letters, which sounds like what
>you want.   Some
> are for numbers, punctuation, and some are non-printable
          ^^^^^^^

you mean digits!

>control characters.

Actually David's advice was more useful. All letters are not
in the range 'a' to 'z' unless you have a very english-centered
view of the world :-)


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-05-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-27  0:00 Strings Karlene
2000-05-27  0:00 ` Strings MaggieJohn
2000-05-28  0:00   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-06-03  0:00     ` Strings Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-27  0:00 ` Strings Robert Dewar
2000-05-27  0:00 ` Strings Robert Dewar
2000-05-27  0:00 ` Strings David C. Hoos, Sr.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-21 21:09 Strings Beard, Frank
2000-12-22 14:19 ` Strings Jef Kelmo
2000-12-22 14:49   ` Strings Larry Kilgallen
2000-12-22 16:35   ` Strings Marin David Condic
2000-12-23 21:04   ` Strings Georg Bauhaus
2000-12-21 17:45 Strings Jef Kelmo
2000-12-21 18:01 ` Strings Jef Kelmo
2000-12-21 18:47 ` Strings mark_lundquist
2000-12-21 18:47 ` Strings mark_lundquist
2000-12-21 23:31   ` Strings gdemont
2000-12-21 19:03 ` Strings David C. Hoos, Sr.
1995-01-25 15:08 Strings Ray Toal
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