Posted by Edward Z. Yang on 05/22/07 19:19

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joboils@hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm at a pretty early stage of learning php and I'm looking to be able
> to examine a string and tell which each character in that string is -
> a letter or a number. I've tried php.net but I'm either asking the
> wrong questions or I don't understand the answers.
> Any help gratefully received.

ctype_alpha($text); // alphabetic within current locale
ctype_digit($num); // digits 0-9

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