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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Strings
Date: 2000/05/28
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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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