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 Posted by joboils on 05/23/07 05:32 
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:19:05 -0400, "Edward Z. Yang" 
<edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com> wrote: 
 
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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. 
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>ctype_alpha($text); // alphabetic within current locale 
>ctype_digit($num); // digits 0-9 
 
Thank you, that looks like what I wanted.  I'll be checking it out 
later on this week, but does the ctype_aplha() identify spaces, too?
 
  
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