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RE: how to check if each char in a given string is a letter or a digit?
- From: TSchutzerWeissmann at uk dot imshealth dot com
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:01:35 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] how to check if each char in a given string is a letter or a digit?
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Hello Biyung
> <!-- ???? Not work as I want ??? -->
> <xsl:when test="translate($firstChar,'0123456789','9')='9'">
>
[...]
>
> But the result is that only the char '0' get translate and thus get
> detected as a digit. All other digits are not detected. Any better
> solutions?
>
You need to use
translate($firstChar,'0123456789','9999999999')
because the translation is from each character in the second parameter to
its corresponding
character in the third parameter, by position. So your version translates
"123456789" to "".
hope it works...
Tom Weissmann
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