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DCL:MISC£±:CHKLIB: Character Type Recognition *
4.1 Summary
This is a package containing logical functions for distinguishing character
types. The following character types can be distinguished by this package.
- Space: blank (hereafter represented by the symbol ¢¤).
- Currency sign: $, for example, although implementation-dependencies
do exist (represented by $
in the sections that follow)
- Special characters: the following 13 characters ¢¤, ', (, ), *, +, ,, -, ., /, :, =, $.
- Roman letters: the following 26 letters.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W,
X, Y, Z.
- Numerical characters: the following 10 characters. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
- Alphanumeric characters: roman letters and numerical characters
- FORTRAN characters: roman letters, numerical characters, and special
characters.