(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
ctype_punct — Check for any printable character which is not whitespace or an alphanumeric character
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string,
text
, are punctuation character.
text
The tested string.
Note:
If an int between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative values have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string containing the decimal digits of the integer.
Returns true
if every character in text
is printable, but neither letter, digit or blank, false
otherwise.
Example #1 A ctype_punct() example
<?php
$strings = array('ABasdk!@!$#', '!@ # $', '*&$()');
foreach ($strings as $testcase) {
if (ctype_punct($testcase)) {
echo "The string $testcase consists of all punctuation.\n";
} else {
echo "The string $testcase does not consist of all punctuation.\n";
}
}
?>
The above example will output:
The string ABasdk!@!$# does not consist of all punctuation. The string !@ # $ does not consist of all punctuation. The string *&$() consists of all punctuation.