Vala Character Sample
This sample demonstrates how to extract each character from a Unicode string and convert it to a Unicode character to get its type.
void main () {
string s = "1234567890 ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩۰ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz أبتةثجحخدذرزسشصضطظعغفقكلمنهوي";
unichar c;
for (int i = 0; s.get_next_char (ref i, out c); ) {
UnicodeType type = c.type ();
stdout.printf ("'%s' is ", c.to_string ());
switch (type) {
case UnicodeType.UPPERCASE_LETTER:
stdout.printf ("UPPERCASE_LETTER\n");
break;
case UnicodeType.LOWERCASE_LETTER:
stdout.printf ("LOWERCASE_LETTER\n");
break;
case UnicodeType.OTHER_LETTER:
stdout.printf ("OTHER_LETTER\n");
break;
case UnicodeType.DECIMAL_NUMBER:
stdout.printf ("OTHER_NUMBER\n");
break;
case UnicodeType.SPACE_SEPARATOR:
stdout.printf ("SPACE_SEPARATOR\n");
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}