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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Xend <firperfect@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:00:03 -0800 (PST)
>>
>> are there Emacs function like Libc function isupper / isalpha???
> 
> It's all too easy to make one:
> 
>   (eq (downcase ch) ch)

That's unimaginary more elegant than what I suggested. :-)

-ap
> 
> Btw, why do you need such a function?  What do you need to do if these
> functions return t?  Perhaps you could do whatever you need without
> such a test?
> 
>