Re: stringContainsChars

  • From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:10:59 -0600

if you're checking for alpha chars. you can do something like:
if (char >= asc(a) && char <= asc(z) || char >= asc(A) && char <= asc(Z))
it'll see if it's an alpha char if you compare it's ascii values

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: stringContainsChars


You're gonna need 2 clarify that for me a little, Ty--I'm not sure
what you're saying here.

On 10/18/07, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello jacky,
why not search on a range of ascii numbers?
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: stringContainsChars


> See, Martin, I have this *major* problem--I'm too bleepin *lazy* to do
> all that typing!  I do as little scripting/programming as possible due
> to that l word also.  But sometimes u just gotta, I guess.
>
> On 10/17/07, Martin Slack <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Your guess is as good as mine Jackie, but don't forget that you could
>> probably define some string constants like
>>
>> Const
>> alpha = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
>>
>> and use that as the appropriate parameter.
>>
>>   Caveat Emptor,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:43 AM
>> Subject: Re: stringContainsChars
>>
>>
>> > Thanks, Martin--I actualy figured it out--they sure don't make it >> > easy
>> > by letting u search on such things as a-z, etc.  I was hoping things
>> > could be a bit easier, but,
>> > no!!!! Why should *that* happen? &, I agree w/Brian when he said >> > in
>> > a later post that FS's docs leave a great deal to be desired.
>> >
>> > On 10/17/07, Martin Slack <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Hi Jackie,
>> >>
>> >> Both parameters are simple strings. Parameter one is the string >> >> to
>> >> search, and parameter two is a string containing all the characters
>> >> that
>> >> you
>> >> want to search for.  If any one of those characters is in the other
>> >> string,
>> >> then success is returned.
>> >>
>> >>   hth
>> >>
>> >> Martin
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:00 PM
>> >> Subject: stringContainsChars
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Just comin' out real quick 2 ask if any1 knows the syntax of the
>> >> > StringContainsChars jaws scripting function--specifically, how >> >> > does
>> >> > 1
>> >> > format the list of characters?  I read the FSDN but it doesn't
>> >> > mention
>> >> > that.
>> >> >
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