From: Martin Ågren Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 09:13:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] quote: use isalnum() to check for alphanumeric characters Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <0157c714-2d9b-7896-f5dc-232d82a46625@web.de> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 19:53, René Scharfe wrote: > > isalnum(c) is equivalent to isalpha(c) || isdigit(c), so use the > former instead. The result is shorter, simpler and slightly more > efficient. From git-compat-util.h I can see that the claim about equivalence is correct. And the efficiency claim, too. And agreed on "shorter and simpler". > --- a/quote.c > +++ b/quote.c > @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ void sq_quote_buf_pretty(struct strbuf *dst, const char *src) > } > > for (p = src; *p; p++) { > - if (!isalpha(*p) && !isdigit(*p) && !strchr(ok_punct, *p)) { > + if (!isalnum(*p) && !strchr(ok_punct, *p)) { I failed to identify any similar constructs. Looks good to me. Martin