# is-word-character

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Check if a character is a word character (`\w`, which equals `[a-zA-Z0-9_]`).

## Install

[npm][]:

```sh
npm install is-word-character
```

## Use

```js
var wordCharacter = require('is-word-character')

wordCharacter('a') // => true
wordCharacter('Z') // => true
wordCharacter('0') // => true
wordCharacter('_') // => true
wordCharacter(' ') // => false
wordCharacter('💩') // => false
```

## API

### `wordCharacter(character|code)`

Check whether the given character code (`number`), or the character code at the
first position (`string`), is a word character.

## Related

*   [`is-alphabetical`](https://github.com/wooorm/is-alphabetical)
*   [`is-alphanumerical`](https://github.com/wooorm/is-alphanumerical)
*   [`is-decimal`](https://github.com/wooorm/is-decimal)
*   [`is-hexadecimal`](https://github.com/wooorm/is-hexadecimal)
*   [`is-whitespace-character`](https://github.com/wooorm/is-whitespace-character)

## License

[MIT][license] © [Titus Wormer][author]

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