Using the character class

- Introduction
- Analyzing Characters
- Transforming Characters
- Member of a Set

### Introduction

The character class provides static methods for evaluating and manipulating characters.

### Analyzing Characters

Methods are provided for determining if a character is alphabetic, alphanumeric, lower case, upper case, etc.

> #include <rudiments/character.h>
> #include <rudiments/stdio.h>
> int main(int argc, const char **argv) {
> // print information about all ascii characters
> for (unsigned char uc=0; uc<128; uc++) {
> char c=(char)uc;
> stdoutput.write("character ");
> stdoutput.safePrint(c);
> stdoutput.write(":\n");
> stdoutput.printf(" is alphanumeric : %s\n",
> (character::isAlphanumeric(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is alphabetical : %s\n",
> (character::isAlphabetical(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is lower case : %s\n",
> (character::isLowerCase(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is upper case : %s\n",
> (character::isUpperCase(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is punctuation : %s\n",
> (character::isPunctuation(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is printable : %s\n",
> (character::isPrintable(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is printable (non-space): %s\n",
> (character::isPrintableNonSpace(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is control chraracter : %s\n",
> (character::isControlCharacter(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is digit : %s\n",
> (character::isDigit(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is hex digit : %s\n",
> (character::isHexDigit(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is blank : %s\n",
> (character::isBlank(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is whitespace : %s\n",
> (character::isWhitespace(c))?"yes":"no");
> stdoutput.printf(" is ascii : %s\n",
> (character::isAscii(c))?"yes":"no");
> }
> }

### Transforming Characters

Methods are also provided for transforming the character to upper or lower case, and to 7-bit ascii, by stripping off the high order bit.

> #include <rudiments/character.h>
> #include <rudiments/stdio.h>
> int main(int argc, const char **argv) {
> // perform case conversions on all ascii characters
> for (unsigned char uc=0; uc<128; uc++) {
> char c=(char)uc;
> stdoutput.write("character ");
> stdoutput.safePrint(c);
> stdoutput.write(":\n");
> stdoutput.write(" to upper case : ");
> stdoutput.safePrint((char)character::toUpperCase(c));
> stdoutput.write("\n");
> stdoutput.write(" to lower case : ");
> stdoutput.safePrint((char)character::toLowerCase(c));
> stdoutput.write("\n");
> // place a 1 in bit 8
> c=c|0x80;
> stdoutput.write(" to ascii : ");
> stdoutput.safePrint((char)character::toAscii(c));
> stdoutput.write("\n");
> }
> }

### Member of a Set

An inSet() method is also provided which returns true if the specified character is a member of the specified set of characters and false otherwise.

> #include <rudiments/character.h>
> #include <rudiments/stdio.h>
> int main(int argc, const char **argv) {
> // define the set
> const char set[]="abcdefg";
> // loop through the alphabet...
> for (char c='a'; c<='z'; c++) {
> stdoutput.printf("is %c is in the set \"%s\"? %s\n",
> c,set,
> (character::inSet(c,set))?"yes":"no");
> }
> }