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# ctype_alpha

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)

ctype_alpha -- Check for alphabetic character(s)

## Description

bool ctype_alpha ( string text)

Returns `TRUE` if every character in text is a letter from the current locale, `FALSE` otherwise. In the standard C locale letters are just [A-Za-z] and ctype_alpha() is equivalent to (ctype_upper($text) || ctype_lower($text)) if $text is just a single character, but other languages have letters that are considered neither upper nor lower case.

Exemplo 1. A ctype_alpha() example (using the default locale)
`<?php $strings = array('KjgWZC', 'arf12'); foreach ($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"; } } ?>`
This example will output :
    The string KjgWZC consists of all letters.
    The string arf12 does not consists of all letters.

See also ctype_upper(), ctype_lower(), and setlocale().

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