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Re: variable start values

• Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Dec 10, 2003
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Austin" <ronaustin at alltel.net>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: variable start values


> 
> 
> Pete Lomax wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:33:19 +0000, Jason Dube
> > <dubetyrant at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >  if x[1][1] < 90 then
> > 
> > It took me a moment to figure that out. I suggest you use 
> > "if x[1][1] < 'Z' then" instead, and probably <= as well.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Pete
> > If he wants to trap non capital letters shouldn't it be <65 or > 90  -- 
> > <'A' or >'Z' this would trap lower case plus misc numbers, punctuation , 
> > etc.
> 

I believe that 

    if find(x[1][1], upper_case_chars) = 0 then 

is the safest method, because it does not restrict itself to ASCII coding or to
English. All that is needed is to load the sequence 'upper_case_chars' with the
values that the current user believes are uppercase characters at runtime. The
default can be "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" but should be changable under user
control.

-- 
Derek