IsAlpha

Mon 01 January 2018

Syntax

IsAlpha(String)

Description

Use the IsAlpha function to determine if String contains only textual characters, including alphabetic characters from several scripts including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Thai, ideographic characters from Chinese, Japanese and Korean and Japanese kana. It excludes all punctuation, numerics, spaces and control codes

Parameters

Field or Control

Definition

String

Specify the string you want to search for alphabetic and other textual characters.

Returns

A Boolean value: true if the string contains only alphabetic and textual characters, false if it contains any numbers, punctuation or spaces.