Re: What's the easiest way to tell if a character is a letter or not?

[Alex Harui]

On 4/21/13 8:43 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thank Paul for all of that - very interesting and possible one way to go as
> the code is under MIT licence.
> 
> I'm now thinking the quick fix solution is to skip anything that's not a space
> or format character as that's the smaller set. At this point in the code it
> doesn't really care if the month name is actually a valid one.
> 
If I understand you, I think that is actually the right solution.  I think
you want to identify if a sequence of chars is a valid format pattern".
After all, what is the definition of a 'letter' and why aren't symbols
allowed.

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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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