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ESL Documentation

ESLSTR Subroutine

Determine whether the characters in a string are alphanumerics or punctuation marks.

call IsAlphaNumericOrPunc(STRING_SV, RETURN_BV)

STRING_SV

The string whose characters you want examined.

RETURN_BV

The identifier for a boolean variable to hold the result of this operation.

Description

Use this subroutine to determine whether all the characters in STRING_SV are either alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks (!, ., ?, etc.). The subroutine uses RETURN_BV to return true (1) if all the characters are either alphanumerics or punctuation and false (0) if not.

See Also

IsAlphaNumericOrPuncFunction( ) Function