From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Checking to see if a string is a letter
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:40:01 -0700
Date: 2012-04-03T13:40:01-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jlfn9b$iiq$1@tornado.tornevall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jle43k$qcc$1@dont-email.me>
On 04/02/2012 11:07 PM, deuteros wrote:
>
> I mean the string contains a single letter and nothing more. For example:
>
> a - Legal
> A - Legal
> aa - Illegal
> a1 - Illegal
Then you'd probably start by checking 'Length for the String to be sure it's 1.
Then you'd check that the single Character in the String is a letter, probably
using an operation in Ada.Characters.Handling.
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Jeff Carter
"I fart in your general direction."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2012-04-03 2:11 Checking to see is a string is a letter deuteros
2012-04-03 4:18 ` Leo Brewin
2012-04-03 4:52 ` Checking to see if " deuteros
2012-04-03 5:15 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-04-03 6:07 ` deuteros
2012-04-03 6:47 ` Gautier write-only
2012-04-03 12:55 ` deuteros
2012-04-03 14:19 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-04-03 8:26 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-03 12:56 ` deuteros
2012-04-03 13:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-05 17:12 ` deuteros
2012-04-05 17:24 ` Martin Dowie
2012-04-05 18:04 ` deuteros
2012-04-05 18:18 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-04-05 18:56 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-03 20:40 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2012-04-03 7:09 ` Checking to see is " Thomas Løcke
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