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I have a string and want to find any character that is lower case, any ideas how to do this, is there a function that will decipher between upper and lower case?
Sep 22 '09 #1
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Dormilich
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use regular expressions. or maybe the unicode values. you could also compute the difference between original text and uppercased text.
Sep 22 '09 #2
Atli
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I would go with a regular expression.
A simple "[a-z]" pattern used with the preg_match_all function should give you an array of all the lower case letters in a string.
Sep 22 '09 #3
ziycon
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Ok, I'm not sure how to go about this, say I have the below string:
Agd3iKcTF
What i want to do is search for all the lower case characters and get there array element location so for the above string it would be:
1,2,4,6
But I need the string to be kept intact, all help appreciated.
Sep 25 '09 #4
Dormilich
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then you need a RegEx.
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  1. preg_match_all('#[a-z]#', 'Agd3iKcTF', $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
technically, you could also loop through the string, but that’s far less efficient.
Sep 25 '09 #5
hsriat
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  1. $str = "ABcdeFgHI";
  2. $result = array_keys(array_diff_assoc(str_split($str), str_split(strtolower($str))));
[EDIT: Solution by Dormilich is better.]
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