Re: What's the easiest way to tell if a character is a letter or not?

[Paul Hastings]

On 4/23/2013 2:50 PM, Justin Mclean wrote:
Believe it or that this does exist in Flash and is use by DateTimeFormatter.

i guess i should read more ;-)

The issue with this class however is there no way to parse a string into a
date (the issue here), just format a date object in a nice way, we dealing
with user input here and they are not all Java programmers :-)

think i'm getting confused between java/cf & AS3. let me see how smart 
Date.parse() is.

in java/cf, if you follow the java style masks, yes you can usually parse 
datetime strings back into Date. if you allow any mask the developer feels like, 
the probability shrinks.