how to identify Letter v Number in string

[joboils]

I'm at a pretty early stage of learning php and I'm looking to be able
to examine a string and tell which each character in that string is -
a letter or a number. I've tried php.net but I'm either asking the
wrong questions or I don't understand the answers.
Any help gratefully received.

[Edward Z. Yang]

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jo*****@hotmail.com wrote:

I'm at a pretty early stage of learning php and I'm looking to be able
to examine a string and tell which each character in that string is -
a letter or a number. I've tried php.net but I'm either asking the
wrong questions or I don't understand the answers.
Any help gratefully received.

ctype_alpha($text); // alphabetic within current locale
ctype_digit($num); // digits 0-9

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[joboils]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:19:05 -0400, "Edward Z. Yang"
<ed*********@thewritingpot.comwrote:

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jo*****@hotmail.com wrote:

>I'm at a pretty early stage of learning php and I'm looking to be able
to examine a string and tell which each character in that string is -
a letter or a number. I've tried php.net but I'm either asking the
wrong questions or I don't understand the answers.
Any help gratefully received.

ctype_alpha($text); // alphabetic within current locale
ctype_digit($num); // digits 0-9

Thank you, that looks like what I wanted. I'll be checking it out
later on this week, but does the ctype_aplha() identify spaces, too?

[Edward Z. Yang]

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jo*****@hotmail.com wrote:

Thank you, that looks like what I wanted. I'll be checking it out
later on this week, but does the ctype_aplha() identify spaces, too?

ctype_alpha does not accept spaces.

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[joboils]

On Wed, 23 May 2007 18:04:32 -0400, "Edward Z. Yang"
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jo*****@hotmail.com wrote:

>Thank you, that looks like what I wanted. I'll be checking it out
later on this week, but does the ctype_aplha() identify spaces, too?

ctype_alpha does not accept spaces.

Boo-hoo. But thank you anyway!