Re: comparing char to other known char's

[James Colannino <james@colannino.org>]

Adrian Popescu wrote:
> On Thursday 23 June 2005 02:22, James Colannino wrote:
> 
>>Hey everyone.  I hope this isn't a stupid question.  I've been googling
>>around trying to find a function that I can use but haven't been
>>successful.  Here's what I want to be able to do:
>>
>>let's say I have a char called 'character.'  I want to compare
>>'character' to see if it's any one of the characters in a list.  For
>>example, maybe I would want to test character to see if it's either 'e',
>>'r', '*', etc.
>>
>>Is this easy enough to implement?  I could do if (character == 'e' ||
>>character == [...] and so on and so forth, but this seems much to
>>tedious and unreadable to be my only solution.  If anyone has any ideas
>>I'd be extremely grateful :)  Thanks very much in advance.
>>
>>James
> 
> 
> the way you put it ( if (character == 'e' || ....) ; it is TRUE if 
> any (or only one) from those chars exists ; 

I know.  That's what I wanted.  Basically, I want to check to see if
each character in a string matches any one of an illegal set of
characters.  Thus, the function would fail if it encountered an illegal
character in the string.

James
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