More text, unfinished chapter 1...

chapters/chapter_1.c

@@ -9,4 +9,60 @@ It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful or harmful, it really depen
 #ifndef CHAPTER_1_SOURCE
 #define CHAPTER_1_SOURCE
 
+int character_is_uppercase (char character) {
+	return ((int) ((character >= 'A') && (character <= 'Z')));
+}
+
+int character_is_lowercase (char character) {
+	return ((int) ((character >= 'a') && (character <= 'z')));
+}
+
+int character_is_digit (char character) {
+	return ((int) ((character >= '0') && (character <= '9')));
+}
+
+int character_is_blank (char character) {
+	return ((int) ((character == ' ') || (character == '\t') || (character == '\r') || (character == '\n')));
+}
+
+int character_is_alpha (char character) {
+	return ((character_is_uppercase (character) != 0) || (character_is_lowercase (character) != 0));
+}
+
+int character_is_symbol (char character) {
+	return (character_compare_array (character, "~!@#$%^&*()+{}|:\"<>?`-=[]\\;',./"));
+}
+
+int character_is_visible (char character) {
+	return ((int) ((character >= ' ') && (character <= '~')));
+}
+
+int character_is_invisible (char character) {
+	return (character_is_visible (character) == 0);
+}
+
+int character_is_escape (char character) {
+	return ((int) (character == '\033'));
+}
+
+int character_is_underscore (char character) {
+	return ((int) (character == '_'));
+}
+
+int character_is_hexadecimal (char character) {
+	return (character_compare_array (character, "0123456789ABCDEF"));
+}
+
+int character_compare_array (char character, char * character_array) {
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i != string_length (character_array); ++i)
+		if (character == character_array [i]) {
+			return (1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	return (0);
+}
+
 #endif

chapters/chapter_1.h

@@ -65,6 +65,28 @@ Okay, now we're left with following actually useful and C-loving keywords, 18 of
 - return: Used in functions to return from them with or without a result (return value). It's best when function only uses it once.
 - break: When inside a loop, this statement will exit the loop. In newer standards it can take simple arguments, but we'll see why that's bad.
 - continue: Even more specific case, when inside a loop, this statement will skip to the end of the loop, and then continue again.
+
+Now, of those 18 actually useful C keywords, I like to avoid 'struct', 'switch', 'case', 'default', 'while', and use (functional) 'static' and 'extern' only in order to silence
+compiler warnings, 'static' inside a function is more useful. That leaves us (me) with 12 C keywords that I love, out of complete 32 keywords in ANSI C standard. However, we'll
+see that sometimes is preferable to use switch statement somewhere, or while loop when for loop feels like overkill. In most real-world cases, you'll need to use some API or
+library that internally used structures everywhere, so you'll need to adapt to it, we'll see examples later...
+
+So, real men need these keywords { char, int, void, sizeof, static, if, else, for, enum, return }, and use the rest of them in order to silence compiler warnings, use some
+standard library functions, clean the source code or access an API / library / header file.
 */
 
+extern int character_is_uppercase   (char character);
+extern int character_is_lowercase   (char character);
+extern int character_is_digit       (char character);
+extern int character_is_blank       (char character);
+extern int character_is_alpha       (char character);
+extern int character_is_symbol      (char character);
+extern int character_is_visible     (char character);
+extern int character_is_invisible   (char character);
+extern int character_is_escape      (char character);
+extern int character_is_underscore  (char character);
+extern int character_is_hexadecimal (char character);
+
+extern int character_compare_array (char character, char * character_array);
+
 #endif