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From: Faux_Pseudo <Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL>
Subject: Re: Character List
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--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
		--(Rafal 'Raf256' Maj said it like only they can.)--
> bug <my.e-mail.is@my.sig> wrote in
> news:3k5eauov0iv5sjeipg0sq9svmel1c1c5ps@4ax.com: 
> 
>>#include <iostream>
>> int main()
>> {
>>      for (int i=32; i<128; i++)
>>           std::cout << (char) i;
>>      return 0;
>> }
> 
> 
> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <conio.h>
> int main()  {
>   clrscr();
>   int x=0;
>   for (int i=32; i<=126; i++) {
>     if (i<100) cout<<'0';
>     cout<<i<<' '<<(char)i<<" | ";
>     if (x++>6) { cout<<endl; x=0; }
>   }
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> 

I was toying around with a shell script version but found that their
was no clean way to do this because of two different reasons.
   1. it depends on what ISO character set you are using.
   2. to accommodate for the above you need to verify that what comes
   out is indeed ASCII.  There is no POSIX character list for
   [:ascii:].

The first one is the nature of the beast and a consequence of using a
high level interpretor.  
The second one I find unexcusable and a glaring short coming in
POSIX.   Can some one tell my why there is no [:ascii:] list?
I can only assume this is intentional but can not figure out why.
 


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