Ada Programming/Libraries/Ada.Characters.Handling


This language feature is available from Ada 95 on.

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Ada.Characters.Handling is a unit of the Predefined Language Environment since Ada 95.

Specification

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--                     Standard Ada library specification
--   Copyright (c) 2003-2018 Maxim Reznik <reznikmm@gmail.com>
--   Copyright (c) 2004-2016 AXE Consultants
--   Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2006 Ada-Europe
--   Copyright (c) 2000 The MITRE Corporation, Inc.
--   Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Intermetrics, Inc.
--   SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause and LicenseRef-AdaReferenceManual
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------

with Ada.Characters.Conversions;

package Ada.Characters.Handling is
   pragma Pure (Handling);

   --   Character classification functions

   function Is_Control           (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Graphic           (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Letter            (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Lower             (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Upper             (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Basic             (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Digit             (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Decimal_Digit     (Item : in Character) return Boolean
     renames Is_Digit;
   function Is_Hexadecimal_Digit (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Alphanumeric      (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_Special           (Item : in Character) return Boolean;

   --   Conversion functions for Character and String

   function To_Lower (Item : in Character) return Character;
   function To_Upper (Item : in Character) return Character;
   function To_Basic (Item : in Character) return Character;

   function To_Lower (Item : in String) return String;
   function To_Upper (Item : in String) return String;
   function To_Basic (Item : in String) return String;

   --   Classifications of and conversions between Character and ISO 646

   subtype ISO_646 is
     Character range Character'Val(0) .. Character'Val(127);

   function Is_ISO_646 (Item : in Character) return Boolean;
   function Is_ISO_646 (Item : in String)    return Boolean;

   function To_ISO_646 (Item       : in Character;
                        Substitute : in ISO_646 := ' ')
                       return ISO_646;

   function To_ISO_646 (Item       : in String;
                        Substitute : in ISO_646 := ' ')
                       return String;

   --   The functions Is_Character, Is_String, To_Character, To_String,
   --   To_Wide_Character  and To_Wide_String are obsolescent; see J.14.

   function Is_Character (Item : in Wide_Character) return Boolean
     renames Conversions.Is_Character;
   function Is_String    (Item : in Wide_String)    return Boolean
     renames Conversions.Is_String;

   function To_Character (Item       : in Wide_Character;
                          Substitute : in Character := ' ')
                         return Character
     renames Conversions.To_Character;

   function To_String    (Item       : in Wide_String;
                          Substitute : in Character := ' ')
                         return String
     renames Conversions.To_String;

   function To_Wide_Character (Item : in Character) return Wide_Character
     renames Conversions.To_Wide_Character;

   function To_Wide_String    (Item : in String)    return Wide_String
     renames Conversions.To_Wide_String;

end Ada.Characters.Handling;

See also

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Wikibook

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External examples

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Ada Reference Manual

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Ada 95

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Ada 2005

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Ada 2012

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