JCL Help:CharType@AnsiChar

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Summary

Returns character type information.

Pascal

 function CharType(const C: Char): Word;
function CharType(const C: AnsiChar): Word;

Parameters

Parameters	Description
const C: Char	The character for which to retriev type information.

Return Value

The type of the character, this can be one of the following values.

Name	Value	Meaning
C1_UPPER	0x0001	Uppercase
C1_LOWER	0x0002	Lowercase
C1_DIGIT	0x0004	Decimal digits
C1_SPACE	0x0008	Space characters
C1_PUNCT	0x0010	Punctuation
C1_CNTRL	0x0020	Control characters
C1_BLANK	0x0040	Blank characters
C1_XDIGIT	0x0080	Hexadecimal digits
C1_ALPHA	0x0100	Any linguistic character: alphabetic, syllabary, or ideographic

Description

The CharType function returns character type information about the specified character. This routine returns the same information as routines such as IsCharControl. For further information about character type information see the documentation for the GetStringTypeEx routine in the Platform SDK.

About

Unit

JclAnsiStrings

Donator

Azret Botash

Notes

In a future Linux version the values may differ.

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