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v: v3

Author: bors

[refs]

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-refs/heads/master: f6c9ff392becd86ee22ad96cd66e137b65195f97
+refs/heads/master: df97d23c71f6fbe300d3bc0dca23b063044b3934
 refs/heads/snap-stage1: e33de59e47c5076a89eadeb38f4934f58a3618a6
 refs/heads/snap-stage3: 6c08cc2db4f98e9f07ae7d50338396c4123c2f0a
 refs/heads/try: 70152ff55722878cde684ee6462c14c65f2c4729

trunk/src/libstd/char.rs

@@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ pub fn is_alphanumeric(c: char) -> bool {
         || general_category::No(c)
 }
 
+///
+/// Indicates whether a character is a control character. Control
+/// characters are defined in terms of the Unicode General Category
+/// 'Cc'.
+///
+#[inline]
+pub fn is_control(c: char) -> bool { general_category::Cc(c) }
+
 /// Indicates whether the character is numeric (Nd, Nl, or No)
 #[inline]
 pub fn is_digit(c: char) -> bool {
@@ -354,6 +362,7 @@ pub trait Char {
     fn is_uppercase(&self) -> bool;
     fn is_whitespace(&self) -> bool;
     fn is_alphanumeric(&self) -> bool;
+    fn is_control(&self) -> bool;
     fn is_digit(&self) -> bool;
     fn is_digit_radix(&self, radix: uint) -> bool;
     fn to_digit(&self, radix: uint) -> Option<uint>;
@@ -384,6 +393,8 @@ impl Char for char {
 
     fn is_alphanumeric(&self) -> bool { is_alphanumeric(*self) }
 
+    fn is_control(&self) -> bool { is_control(*self) }
+
     fn is_digit(&self) -> bool { is_digit(*self) }
 
     fn is_digit_radix(&self, radix: uint) -> bool { is_digit_radix(*self, radix) }
@@ -494,6 +505,19 @@ fn test_to_digit() {
     assert_eq!('$'.to_digit(36u), None);
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_is_control() {
+    assert!('\u0000'.is_control());
+    assert!('\u0003'.is_control());
+    assert!('\u0006'.is_control());
+    assert!('\u0009'.is_control());
+    assert!('\u007f'.is_control());
+    assert!('\u0092'.is_control());
+    assert!(!'\u0020'.is_control());
+    assert!(!'\u0055'.is_control());
+    assert!(!'\u0068'.is_control());
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn test_is_digit() {
    assert!('2'.is_digit());