Re: Challenge - Creative Way To Detect Alpha Characters

[CombatSquirrel]

The plain old C way:

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;

sub contains_alpha($) {
   my ($ord_a, $ord_z, $ord_A, $ord_Z) = map ord, qw/a z A Z/;
   for (split //, $_[0]) {
      $_ = ord $_;
      return 1
         if ($ord_a <= $_ and $_ <= $ord_z) || ($ord_A <= $_ and $_ <=
+ $ord_Z);
   }
   return 0;
}

for (<DATA>) {
   chomp;
   print "'$_' " . (contains_alpha $_ ? 'contains' : 'does not contain
+')
       . " standard alphabet characters\n";
}
__DATA__
Hi
123456789o
1234567890
xAFCE3
xAFCEA
... --- ...
.s. -o- .s.

Not really creative, though...
CombatSquirrel.