[racket-dev] Character classification

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Tue Sep 4 09:11:14 EDT 2012

Since the R5RS version of char-numeric? (according to the documentation)
tests for the ten digits, you can use:

(require (only-in r5rs char-numeric?))

/Jens Axel

2012/9/4 Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa at gmail.com>:
> The non-cooperation between char-numeric? and string->number is very annoying.
>
> I had to resort to:
>
> (define (my-char-numeric? c)
>   (char<=? #\0 c #\9))
>
> Maybe I am missing a function similar to my-char-numeric? somewhere in
> the Racket docs?
>
> FWIW, my humble opinion is that char-numeric? should be defined as the
> my- version above. The Unicode category, if that's what one wants, can
> be accessed with char-general-category.
>
> Cheers
> P.
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