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\" @(#)isspace.3 5.3 (Berkeley) 7/31/91
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Dd April 17, 2008
Dt ISSPACE 3
Os
Sh NAME
Nm isspace
Nd white-space character test
Sh LIBRARY
Lb libc
Sh SYNOPSIS
In ctype.h
Ft int
Fn isspace "int c"
Sh DESCRIPTION
The
Fn isspace
function tests for the standard white-space characters
\" or for any
\" of an implementation-defined set of characters
for which
Xr isalnum 3
is false.
The standard white-space characters are the following:
Pp
Bl -tag -width xxxxx -offset indent -compact
It Sq \0
Space character.
It Li \ef
Form feed.
It Li \en
New-line.
It Li \er
Carriage return.
It Li \et
Horizontal tab.
It Li \ev
Vertical tab.
El
Pp
In the
Em ``C''
locale,
Fn isspace
returns true only for the standard white-space characters.
Sh RETURN VALUES
The
Fn isspace
function returns zero if the character tests false and
returns non-zero if the character tests true.
Sh SEE ALSO
Xr ctype 3 ,
Xr isalnum 3 ,
Xr isalpha 3 ,
Xr isascii 3 ,
Xr isblank 3 ,
Xr iscntrl 3 ,
Xr isdigit 3 ,
Xr isgraph 3 ,
Xr islower 3 ,
Xr isprint 3 ,
Xr ispunct 3 ,
Xr isupper 3 ,
Xr isxdigit 3 ,
Xr stdio 3 ,
Xr toascii 3 ,
Xr tolower 3 ,
Xr toupper 3 ,
Xr ascii 7
Sh STANDARDS
The
Fn isspace
function conforms to
St -ansiC .
Sh CAVEATS
The argument to
Fn isspace
must be
Dv EOF
or representable as an
Vt unsigned char ;
otherwise, the behavior is undefined.
See the
Sx CAVEATS
section of
Xr ctype 3
for more details.