Types of Characters for Fip

Several Fip programs use the idea of a 'type of character' - uppercase, punctuation, numbers etc.

Believe it or not, there is some consistancy!

Each program - ipformat, vwire or any using FipSeq for 'repeats' - all use the following table.

See also ASCII Mapping for information on the actual character positions.

Code	Name	Description
a	Alphabetic	All Letters a-z and A-Z
u	Upper case	All Uppercase Letters A-Z
l	Lower case	All Lowercase Letters a-z
n	Number	All Numbers 0-9
d	Decimal number	All Numbers 0-9 and dot '.' comma ',' plus '+' minus '-'
m	Money	All Numbers 0-9 and dot '.' comma ',' plus '+' minus '-' currency symbol '$'
s	Space	Space Tab LineFeed/NewLine CarriageReturn FormFeed/VerticalTab (but NOT BackSpace which is a ControlChr)
x	Alphanumeric	All Letters and Numbers 0-9 a-z A-Z
e	Alphanumeric and Dot	All Letters and Numbers and the dot 0-9 a-z A-Z '.'
x	ANPA	All Letters, Numbers and dash '-' 0-9 a-z A-Z
p	Printable	Anything you can see! Space, letters, numbers and punctuation
w	Printable - NO space	Same as Printable - but not incluing spaces
t	Punctuation	Standard Punctuation :;&!@#$%^*()_+-={}[]\|\"'~<>,./?
c	Control	The first 31 chrs - all unprintable - \001 to \031 (decimal) or \001 to \037 (octal)
b	Binary	Everything

On Unix, you may want to look at the manual pages .. or on the otherhand you may not....

Note that these are for the normal C or US or UK setup. If your system has had its 'locale' changed to reflect your native language, please see your System Administrator as to what is what exactly.