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String tests with Unicode

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String tests with Unicode

- [Instructor] When working with strings, it's a fairly common task to check to see if a given character belongs to a particular set of characters. So for example, you might want to check if a given character is a white space character. Or if it's a punctuation character. And the Unicode package, which I have the documentation for open here in my browser at this link. Provides a nice set of convenience functions for performing these kinds of tests. And if I scroll down, you can see that there's a bunch of functions that all start with Is. And then something, right? Like, IsPunct and IsSpace and IsLetter and so on. So, what we're going to do is exercise some of these functions in our example code. And try some of them out. So let's go over to our editor. So, here in the editor I'm going to open up in the Unicode folder in the Start folder. The unicode_start. And what I'm going to do is uncomment my imports. All…

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