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Character Testing

ANSI 4.3.1 The sets of characters tested for by the isalnum, isalpha, iscntrl, islower, isprint, and isupper functions

The following list describes these functions as they are implemented by the Microsoft C compiler.

Function Tests For
isalnum Characters 0 - 9, A-Z, a-z ASCII 48-57, 65-90, 97-122
isalpha Characters A-Z, a-z ASCII 65-90, 97-122
iscntrl ASCII 0 -31, 127
islower Characters a-z ASCII 97-122
isprint Characters A-Z, a-z, 0 - 9, punctuation, space ASCII 32-126
isupper Characters A-Z ASCII 65-90

See also

Library Functions