BEGIN { range = "[a-dx-z]" split("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", upper, "") split("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", lower, "") for (i = 1; i in upper; i++) printf("%s ~ %s ---> %s\n", upper[i], range, (upper[i] ~ range) ? "true" : "false") for (i = 1; i in lower; i++) printf("%s ~ %s ---> %s\n", lower[i], range, (lower[i] ~ range) ? "true" : "false") }