The problem with such function is that it requires a lot of data to be used on a non ANSI table. and you can not use in a unicode implementation the Char type, because a char can be more then one byte.
Ido On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > IsCharAlpha() is a Win32 API call. I'm trying to convert code that > uses that call, to be Windows and Linux compatible. Does FPC have a > cross-platform version of that API call? I did a text search through > the RTL of v2.2.3 and it only seems to have the Windows API version. > > I can add a Linux specific function like this in my code, but as the > comment says, it is very primitive and clearly not ideal! > > function IsCharAlpha(AChar: Char): Boolean; > begin > // This is very primitive and doesn't take special chars or unicode into > // consideration. > if AChar in ['a'..'z', 'A'..'Z'] then > Result := True > else > Result := False; > end; > > > Anybody got a better Object Pascal version of IsCharAlpha() I can use > and that we can add into Free Pascal? > > > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
