From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: "help-gnu-emacs\@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to check whether a character (or one-character string) is a letter?
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:29:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iok0y8wr.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
Hello,
this is a problem I have.
Assume that I have a character (taken from some string, which in turn is
copied from the buffer - so it need not be ASCII). What is the best way
to check whether it is a letter within ASCII range?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm writing a function which converts an
arbitrary string to a valid (and nice) filename (e.g., only letters and
hyphens) - so basically I want to walk a string character by character
and convert any space to a hyphen and omit any other non-letter. Am I
reinventing the wheel?
TIA,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
next reply other threads:[~2014-10-04 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-04 0:29 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2014-10-04 1:38 ` How to check whether a character (or one-character string) is a letter? Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <CAOj2CQQsnNxtUPzPV8Vw_DgfGFXUUkZExHbArAu_zDjQn-prvw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-04 2:47 ` Fwd: " John Mastro
2014-10-05 0:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-04 2:58 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-04 4:08 ` Yuri Khan
2014-10-05 0:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-04 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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