Check for alphabetic character(s) with ctype_alpha in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to check for alphabetic character(s) with ctype_alpha.

Example


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<?php
$strings = array('asdf123', 'arf12');
foreach ($strings as $testcase) {
    if (ctype_alpha($testcase)) {
        echo "The string $testcase consists of all letters.\n";
    } else {
        echo "The string $testcase does not consist of all letters.\n";
    }
}
?>

The code above generates the following result.





















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