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From: tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com (Tim Clinkenpeel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: wish i could figure this out for myself
Message-ID: <1991May3.170232.7710@javelin.sim.es.com>
Date: 3 May 91 17:02:32 GMT
References: <1991May3.140719.5931@javelin.sim.es.com> <1991May3.150243.3793@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) writes:
>Close...  Try something like this:

>FUNCTION ValidChar(Ch:Char):Boolean;
>  CONST
>    ValidChars : SET OF Char = ['A'..'Z','a'..'z','0'..'9'];
>  BEGIN
>    ValidChar := Ch IN ValidChars;
>  END;

yeah, i had considered doing it this way but i thought it was sloppy.
besides, i really like to know how to do such a thing exclusively.

in any event, thanks for your help.  i may have to resort to using the above 
method (if nothing else turns up here on c.s.p)
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