Q. How do I determine if a string is all alphabetic or all numeric?

While processing strings in a batch script, you may need to know if the string contains only alphabetic (A-Z / a-z) or only numeric (0-9) characters.

I have scripted Alphabetic.bat and Numeric.bat. The syntax for using these tools are:

call alphabetic string answer

or

call numeric string answer

where string is the environment variable you wish to interrogate and answer is a call directed environment variable that will be set to a Y or a N.

Alphabetic.bat contains:

@echo off
setlocal
set string=%1
set string=%string:"=%
if {%2}

{} @echo Syntax: Alphabetic string answer&endlocal&goto :EOF
@echo %string%|findStr /i "[^a-z]">nul
endlocal
set %2=N
if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 set %2=YNumeric.bat contains:@echo off
setlocal
set string=%1
set string=%string:"=%
if {%2}

{} @echo Syntax: Numeric string answer&endlocal&&goto :EOF
@echo %string%|findStr "[^0-9]">nul
endlocal
set %2=N
if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 set %2=Y

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