ispunct

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< clrm; | stringlrm; | byte
Defined in header <ctype.h>
int ispunct( int ch );

Checks if the given character is a punctuation character in the current C locale. The default C locale classifies the characters !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~ as punctuation.

The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and is not equal to EOF.

Parameters

ch - character to classify

Return value

Non-zero value if the character is a punctuation character, zero otherwise.

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <locale.h>

int main(void)
{
    unsigned char c = '\xd7'; // the character  (multiplication sign) in ISO-8859-1
    printf("In the default C locale, \\xd7 is%spunctuation\n",
           ispunct(c) ? "" : "not " );
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.iso88591");
    printf("In ISO-8859-1 locale, \\xd7 is%spunctuation\n",
           ispunct(c) ? "" : "not " );
}

Output:

In the default C locale, \xd7 is not punctuation
In ISO-8859-1 locale, \xd7 is punctuation

References

  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.4.1.9 The ispunct function (p: 202)
  • C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
  • 7.4.1.9 The ispunct function (p: 183)
  • C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
  • 4.3.1.8 The ispunct function

See also

checks if a wide character is a punctuation character
(function)
ASCII values characters

iscntrl
iswcntrl

isprint
iswprint

isspace
iswspace

isblank
iswblank

isgraph
iswgraph

ispunct
iswpunct

isalnum
iswalnum

isalpha
iswalpha

isupper
iswupper

islower
iswlower

isdigit
iswdigit

isxdigit
iswxdigit

decimal hexadecimal octal
08 \x0\x8 \0\10 control codes (NUL, etc.) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 \x9 \11 tab (\t) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1013 \xA\xD \12\15 whitespaces (\n, \v, \f, \r) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1431 \xE\x1F \16\37 control codes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 \x20 \40 space 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3347 \x21\x2F \41\57 !"#$%&'()*+,-./ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4857 \x30\x39 \60\71 0123456789 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5864 \x3A\x40 \72\100 :;<=>?@ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6570 \x41\x46 \101\106 ABCDEF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7190 \x47\x5A \107\132 GHIJKLMNOP
QRSTUVWXYZ
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9196 \x5B\x60 \133\140 [\]^_` 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
97102 \x61\x66 \141\146 abcdef 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
103122 \x67\x7A \147\172 ghijklmnop
qrstuvwxyz
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
123126 \x7B\x7E \172\176 {|}~ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
127 \x7F \177 backspace character (DEL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0