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  23 <p class="p1"><br></p>
  24 <p class="p2"><b>Char<span class="Apple-tab-span">      </span><span class="Apple-tab-span">    </span>ascii characters</b></p>
  25 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  26 <p class="p4">Chars may be written as literals using the $ sign. For example $a, $b, $c.</p>
  27 <p class="p4">See section [01 Literals]</p>
  28 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  29 <p class="p4">Chars may be created from Integers using the Integer methods asAscii and asDigit.</p>
  30 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  31 <p class="p5"><b><span class="s1">Conversion</span></b></p>
  32 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  33 <p class="p4"><b>ascii</b></p>
  34 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  35 <p class="p4">answers the integer ascii value of a Char.</p>
  36 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  37 <p class="p4"><b>digit</b></p>
  38 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  39 <p class="p4">answers an integer value from 0 to 9 for chars $0 to $9, and values 10 to 35 for chars $a to $z</p>
  40 <p class="p4">or $A to $Z.</p>
  41 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  42 <p class="p4"><b>toUpper</b></p>
  43 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  44 <p class="p4">answers the upper case version of a char. Nonalphabetic chars return themselves.</p>
  45 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  46 <p class="p4"><b>toLower</b></p>
  47 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  48 <p class="p4">answers a lower case version of a char. Nonalphabetic chars return themselves.</p>
  49 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  50 <p class="p5"><b><span class="s1">Testing</span></b></p>
  51 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  52 <p class="p4"><b>isAlpha</b></p>
  53 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  54 <p class="p4">answers whether the char is an alphabetic character.</p>
  55 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  56 <p class="p4"><b>isAlphaNum</b></p>
  57 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  58 <p class="p4">answers whether the char is an alphabetic or numeric character.</p>
  59 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  60 <p class="p4"><b>isPrint</b></p>
  61 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  62 <p class="p4">answers whether the char is printable.</p>
  63 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  64 <p class="p4"><b>isPunct</b></p>
  65 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  66 <p class="p4">answers whether the char is a punctuation character</p>
  67 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  68 <p class="p4"><b>isSpace</b></p>
  69 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  70 <p class="p4">answers whether the char is white space.</p>
  71 <p class="p3"><br></p>
  72 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>isDecDigit</b></p>
  73 <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  74 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>answers whether the char is a decimal digit $0 to $9.</p>
  75 <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  76 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>isFileSafe</b></p>
  77 <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  78 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>answers whether the char is safe for use as in a filename.</p>
  79 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>excludes the path separators / and :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  80 <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  81 <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  82 <p class="p6"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>for(0,255,{ arg i;</p>
  83 <p class="p6"><span class="Apple-tab-span">     </span>var a;</p>
  84 <p class="p6"><span class="Apple-tab-span">     </span>[i,a = i.asAscii,a.isAlphaNum,a.isPrint,a.isPunct,a.isControl].postln;</p>
  85 <p class="p6">});</p>
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  88 <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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