NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     ispunct -- punctuation character test

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <ctype.h>

     int
     ispunct(int c);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ispunct() function tests for any printing character except for space
     (` ') or a character for which isalnum(3) is true.  For single C chars
     locales (see multibyte(3)) the value of the argument is representable as
     an unsigned char or the value of EOF.  In the ASCII character set, this
     includes the following characters (with their numeric values shown in
     octal):

     041 ``!''	   042 ``"''	 043 ``#''     044 ``$''     045 ``%''
     046 ``&''	   047 ``'''	 050 ``(''     051 ``)''     052 ``*''
     053 ``+''	   054 ``,''	 055 ``-''     056 ``.''     057 ``/''
     072 ``:''	   073 ``;''	 074 ``<''     075 ``=''     076 ``>''
     077 ``?''	   100 ``@''	 133 ``[''     134 ``\''     135 ``]''
     136 ``^''	   137 ``_''	 140 ```''     173 ``{''     174 ``|''
     175 ``}''	   176 ``~''

RETURN VALUES    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ispunct() function returns zero if the character tests false and
     returns non-zero if the character tests true.

COMPATIBILITY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Although ispunct() accepts arguments outside of the range of the unsigned
     char type in locales with large character sets, this is a 4.4BSD extension
 and the iswpunct() function should be used instead for maximum
     portability.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     ctype(3), iswpunct(3), multibyte(3), ascii(7)

STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ispunct() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C89'').


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