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Best guess at expressing a string as a variable


  • Subject: Best guess at expressing a string as a variable
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:28:36 +0000

I have a generic descriptive title of a parameter and want to express it as a variable name within a script.

So if my title is "No more awesome today, please!" I will likely render this as "no-more-awesome-today-please" ( I can define the separator style).

I am targeting about 20 or so scripting languages so the range of what each will deem is a valid variable name is rather wide.
However I would like to deliver a reasonable default rendering.

Dealing with English seems not too troublesome but titles composed in other languages might be a different matter.

My current thinking is, regardless of the language, is to exclude all characters that are not members of NSCharacterSet + (id)letterCharacterSet.

Is  + (id)letterCharacterSet the best choice here?

Regards

Jonathan Mitchell
Mugginsoft LLP










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