<?php
/*
 *  $Id: Character.php 325 2007-12-20 15:44:58Z hans $
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/**
 * @package phing.system.lang
 */
class Character {

    // this class might be extended with plenty of ordinal char constants
    // and the like to support the multibyte aware datatype (char) in php
    // in form of an object.
    // anyway just a thought

    public static function isLetter($char) {

        if (strlen($char) !== 1)
            $char = 0;

        $char = (int) ord($char);

        if ($char >= ord('A') && $char <= ord('Z'))
            return true;

        if ($char >= ord('a') && $char <= ord('z'))
            return true;

        return false;
    }

}

