ctype_alnum
ctype_alnum
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
ctype_alnum — Check for alphanumeric character(s)
Description
bool ctype_alnum ( string $text )
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, text, are alphanumeric.
Parameters
-
text -
The tested string.
Return Values
Returns TRUE if every character in text is either a letter or a digit, FALSE otherwise.
Examples
Example #1 A ctype_alnum() example (using the default locale)
<?php
$strings = array('AbCd1zyZ9', 'foo!#$bar');
foreach ($strings as $testcase) {
if (ctype_alnum($testcase)) {
echo "The string $testcase consists of all letters or digits.\n";
} else {
echo "The string $testcase does not consist of all letters or digits.\n";
}
}
?> The above example will output:
The string AbCd1zyZ9 consists of all letters or digits. The string foo!#$bar does not consist of all letters or digits.
Notes
Note:
If an integer between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative values have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string containing the decimal digits of the integer.
See Also
- ctype_alpha() - Check for alphabetic character(s)
- ctype_digit() - Check for numeric character(s)
- setlocale() - Set locale information
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