Many times it is desirable to work with the strings that only contain alphabets and the other special characters are undesirable and sometimes this very task becomes the point to filter the strings and hence requires the way to check if a string is whole ASCII. Let’s discuss certain ways in which this task can be performed.
Method #1 : Using ord() + all()
The combination of this method can be used to achieve the desirable task. In this method, we search for all the string and check for each character, a value in range of ASCII characters.
# Python3 code to demonstrate# Check for ASCII string# using all() + ord() # initializing string test_string = "G4G is best" # printing original string print("The original string : " + str(test_string)) # using all() + ord()# Check for ASCII stringres = all(ord(c) < 128 for c in test_string) # print resultprint("Is the string full ASCII ? : " + str(res)) |
The original string : G4G is best Is the string full ASCII ? : True
Method #2 : Using lambda + encode()
This task can also be achieved using the above functions. In this combination, lambda function is used to extend the size check logic to whole string and encode function checks if the size of original and encoded strings match.
# Python3 code to demonstrate# Check for ASCII string# using lambda + encode() # initializing string test_string = "G4G is best" # printing original string print("The original string : " + str(test_string)) # using lambda + encode()# Check for ASCII stringres = lambda ele: len(ele) == len(ele.encode()) # print resultprint("Is the string full ASCII ? : " + str(res(test_string))) |
The original string : G4G is best Is the string full ASCII ? : True
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