ispunct, iswpunct, _ispunct_l, _iswpunct_l

Determines whether an integer represents a punctuation character.

Syntax

int ispunct(
   int c
);
int iswpunct(
   wint_t c
);
int _ispunct_l(
   int c,
   _locale_t locale
);
int _iswpunct_l(
   wint_t c,
   _locale_t locale
);

Parameters

c
Integer to test.

locale
The locale to use.

Return value

Each of these routines returns nonzero if c is a particular representation of a punctuation character. ispunct returns a nonzero value for any printable character that isn't a space character or a character for which isalnum is nonzero. iswpunct returns a nonzero value for any printable wide character that isn't the space wide character or a wide character for which iswalnum is nonzero. Each of these routines returns 0 if c doesn't satisfy the test condition.

The result of the test condition for the ispunct function depends on the LC_CTYPE category setting of the locale. For more information, see setlocale, _wsetlocale. The versions of these functions that don't have the _l suffix use the current locale for any locale-dependent behavior; the versions that do have the _l suffix are identical except that they use the locale that's passed in instead. For more information, see Locale.

The behavior of ispunct and _ispunct_l is undefined if c isn't EOF or in the range 0 through 0xFF, inclusive. When a debug CRT library is used and c isn't one of these values, the functions raise an assertion.

Generic-text routine mappings

TCHAR.H routine	_UNICODE and _MBCS not defined	_MBCS defined	_UNICODE defined
_istpunct	ispunct	_ismbcpunct	iswpunct

Remarks

By default, this function's global state is scoped to the application. To change this behavior, see Global state in the CRT.

Requirements

Routine	Required header
ispunct	<ctype.h>
iswpunct	<ctype.h> or <wchar.h>
_ispunct_l	<ctype.h>
_iswpunct_l	<ctype.h> or <wchar.h>

For more compatibility information, see Compatibility.

See also

Character classification
Locale
is, isw routines