std::isalpha(std::locale)

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Technical Specifications

Localizations library

Locales and facets
locale
use_facet	has_facet
Character classification
isspace isblank (C++11) iscntrl isupper islower isalpha	isdigit ispunct isxdigit isalnum isprint isgraph
Conversions
toupper tolower	wstring_convert (C++11) wbuffer_convert (C++11)
Facet category base classes
ctype_base codecvt_base messages_base	time_base money_base
Facet categories
ctype ctype<char> codecvt collate messages time_get time_put	num_get num_put numpunct money_get money_put moneypunct
Locale-specific facets
ctype_byname codecvt_byname messages_byname collate_byname	time_get_byname time_put_byname numpunct_byname moneypunct_byname
Code conversion facets
codecvt_utf8 (C++11) codecvt_utf16 (C++11)	codecvt_utf8_utf16 (C++11) codecvt_mode (C++11)
C locale
setlocale localeconv lconv	LC_ALLLC_COLLATELC_CTYPELC_MONETARYLC_NUMERICLC_TIME

Defined in header <locale>
template< class charT > bool isalpha( charT ch, const locale& loc );

Checks if the given character is classified as an alphabetic character by the given locale's std::ctype facet.

Parameters

ch	-	character
loc	-	locale

Return value

Returns true if the character is classified as alphabetic, false otherwise.

Possible implementation

template< class charT > bool isalpha( charT ch, const std::locale& loc ) { return std::use_facet<std::ctype<charT>>(loc).is(std::ctype_base::alpha, ch); }

Example

Demonstrates the use of isalpha() with different locales (OS-specific).

Run this code

#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
int main()
{
    const wchar_t c = L'\u042f'; // cyrillic capital letter ya

    std::locale loc1("C");
    std::cout << "isalpha('ñ', C locale) returned "
               << std::boolalpha << std::isalpha(c, loc1) << '\n';

    std::locale loc2("en_US.UTF8");
    std::cout << "isalpha('ñ', Unicode locale) returned "
              << std::boolalpha << std::isalpha(c, loc2) << '\n';
}

Output:

isalpha('ñ', C locale) returned false
isalpha('ñ', Unicode locale) returned true

See also

isalpha	checks if a character is alphabetic (function)
iswalpha	checks if a wide character is alphabetic (function)