What is character.is_ascii_uppercase() method in Rust?

Overview

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a way of encoding a character set used for communication between computers. ASCII is the first among many encodings, which also include such encodings as the UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.

A character is said to be ASCII if it is a number from 0 to 9, a letter from A to Z, or some special character.

We can check if a particular character is an ASCII uppercase character by using the is_ascii_uppercase() method.

Syntax

character.is_ascii_uppercase()
Syntax for is_ascii_uppercase() method

Parameters

character: This is the character we are checking to see if it is an ASCII uppercase character.

Return value

This method returns a boolean value. It returns true when the character is an ASCII uppercase character. Otherwise, it returns false.

Code example

fn main(){
// create some characters
let char1 = 'R';
let char2 = '❤'; // non ASCII
let char3 = 'L'; //
let char4 = 'a';
let char5 = 'U';
// check if ASCII uppercase characters
println!("{}", char1.is_ascii_uppercase());
println!("{}", char2.is_ascii_uppercase());
println!("{}", char3.is_ascii_uppercase());
println!("{}", char4.is_ascii_uppercase());
println!("{}", char5.is_ascii_uppercase());
}

Explanation

  • Lines 3–7: We create some characters.
  • Lines 10–14: We check if the characters are ASCII uppercase characters and print the results to the console.

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