ISALPHA

ISALPHA

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE CONFORMING TO NOTE SEE ALSO

NAME

isalnum, isalpha, isascii, isblank, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper, isxdigit - character classification routines

SYNOPSIS

#include c); int isalpha (int c); int isascii (int c); int isblank (int c); int iscntrl (int c); int isdigit (int c); int isgraph (int c); int islower (int c); int isprint (int c); int ispunct (int c); int isspace (int c); int isupper (int c); int isxdigit (int c);

DESCRIPTION

These functions check whether c, which must have the value of an unsigned char or EOF, falls into a certain character class according to the current locale.

isalnum()

checks for an alphanumeric character; it is equivalent to (isalpha(c) || isdigit(c)).

isalpha()

checks for an alphabetic character; in the standard locale, it is equivalent to (isupper(c) || islower(c)). In some locales, there may be additional characters for which isalpha() is true--letters which are neither upper case nor lower case.

isascii()

checks whether c is a 7-bit unsigned char value that fits into the ASCII character set. This function is a BSD extension and is also an SVID extension.

isblank()

checks for a blank character; that is, a space or a tab. This function is a GNU extension.

iscntrl()

checks for a control character.

isdigit()

checks for a digit (0 through 9).

isgraph()

checks for any printable character except space.

islower()

checks for a lower-case character.

isprint()

checks for any printable character including space.

ispunct()

checks for any printable character which is not a space or an alphanumeric character.

isspace()

checks for white-space characters. In the and locales, these are: space, form-feed ('f'), newline ('n'), carriage return ('r'), horizontal tab ('t'), and vertical tab ('v').

isupper()

checks for an uppercase letter.

isxdigit()

checks for a hexadecimal digits, i.e. one of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f A B C D E F.

RETURN VALUE

The values returned are nonzero if the character c falls into the tested class, and a zero value if not.

CONFORMING TO

ANSI - C, BSD 4.3. isascii() is a BSD extension and is also an SVID extension. isblank() is a GNU extension.

NOTE

The details of what characters belong into which class depend on the current locale. For example, isupper() will not recognize an A - umlaut as an uppercase letter in the default C locale.

SEE ALSO

tolower(3), toupper(3), setlocale(3), ascii(7), locale(7)