Which Characters are Bad?


When we examine a string, a flag will go off iff the string has any
bad characters in it. I have a few strings to examine. How can I
tell which characters in the entire alphabet are bad? Or maybe bad?
Or good? Or maybe good? Or what?

C-B
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