RE: stringContainsChars
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:43:35 -0400
This is for jaws scripts, not for c
Also, this will not work because of a myriad of reasons, but even in c, this
wouldn't be appropriate because a string, not a char, is being checked.
Furthermore, even if this were c, the appropriate way to do this would be to
use the following from ctype.h.
isalpha
int isalpha(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
or any other locale-specific alphabetic character.
Also, there are a whole host of useful functions in ctype.h that make life
easy
isalnum
int isalnum(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
or any other locale-specific alphabetic character.
isalpha
int isalpha(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
or any other locale-specific alphabetic character.
iscntrl
int iscntrl(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
BEL BS CR FF HT NL VT
or any other implementation-defined control character.
isdigit
int isdigit(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
isgraph
int isgraph(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any character for which either isalnum
or ispunct returns nonzero.
islower
int islower(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
or any other locale-specific lowercase character.
isprint
int isprint(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is space or a character for which isgraph
returns nonzero.
ispunct
int ispunct(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
! " # % & ' ( ) ; <
= > ? [ \ ] * + , -
. / : ^ _ { | } ~
or any other implementation-defined punctuation character.
isspace
int isspace(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
CR FF HT NL VT space
or any other locale-specific space character.
isupper
int isupper(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
or any other locale-specific uppercase character.
isxdigit
int isxdigit(int c);
The function returns nonzero if c is any of:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f A B C D E F
tolower
int tolower(int c);
The function returns the corresponding lowercase letter if one exists and if
isupper(c); otherwise, it returns c.
toupper
int toupper(int c);
The function returns the corresponding uppercase letter if one exists and if
islower(c); otherwise, it returns c.
Some more difficult ways to do this, would be by using the following from
string.h
strspn
size_t strspn(const char *s1, const char *s2);
The function searches for the first element s1[i] in the string s1 that
equals none of the elements of the string s2 and returns i. It considers the
terminating null character as part of the string s1 only.
Using strtok would be overkill, but here is information on that as well.
strtok
char *strtok(char *s1, const char *s2);
If s1 is not a null pointer, the function begins a search of the string s1.
Otherwise, it begins a search of the string whose address was last stored in
an internal static-duration object on an earlier call to the function, as
described below. The search proceeds as follows:
The function searches the string for begin, the address of the first element
that equals none of the elements of the string s2 (a set of token
separators). It considers the terminating null character as part of the
search string only.
If the search does not find an element, the function stores the address of
the terminating null character in the internal static-duration object (so
that a subsequent search beginning with that address will fail) and returns
a null pointer. Otherwise, the function searches from begin for end, the
address of the first element that equals any one of the elements of the
string s2. It again considers the terminating null character as part of the
search string only.
If the search does not find an element, the function stores the address of
the terminating null character in the internal static-duration object.
Otherwise, it stores a null character in the element whose address is end.
Then it stores the address of the next element after end in the internal
static-duration object (so that a subsequent search beginning with that
address will continue with the remaining elements of the string) and returns
begin.
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield,
Tyler
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:11 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: stringContainsChars
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.
Vertigo head coder
"My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features."
msn: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
aim: st8amnd2005
web: tysdomain.com
----- 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.
>> Vertigo head coder
>> "My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features."
>> msn: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> aim: st8amnd2005
>> web: tysdomain.com
>> ----- 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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