The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition
IEEE Std 1003.1-2017 (Revision of IEEE Std 1003.1-2008)
Copyright © 2001-2018 IEEE and The Open Group

NAME

isspace, isspace_l - test for a white-space character

SYNOPSIS

#include <ctype.h>

int isspace(int
c);

[CX] [Option Start] int isspace_l(int c, locale_t locale); [Option End]

DESCRIPTION

For isspace(): [CX] [Option Start]  The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2017 defers to the ISO C standard. [Option End]

The isspace() [CX] [Option Start]  and isspace_l() [Option End]  functions shall test whether c is a character of class space in the current locale, [CX] [Option Start]  or in the locale represented by locale, [Option End] respectively; see XBD Locale.

The c argument is an int, the value of which the application shall ensure is a character representable as an unsigned char or equal to the value of the macro EOF. If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.

[CX] [Option Start] The behavior is undefined if the locale argument to isspace_l() is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not a valid locale object handle. [Option End]

RETURN VALUE

The isspace() [CX] [Option Start]  and isspace_l() [Option End]  functions shall return non-zero if c is a white-space character; otherwise, they shall return 0.

ERRORS

No errors are defined.


The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

To ensure applications portability, especially across natural languages, only these functions and the functions in the reference pages listed in the SEE ALSO section should be used for character classification.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

isalnum, isalpha, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isupper, isxdigit, setlocale, uselocale

XBD Locale, <ctype.h>, <locale.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 1. Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID.

Issue 6

The normative text is updated to avoid use of the term "must" for application requirements.

Issue 7

The isspace_l() function is added from The Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 4.

POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 1, XSH/TC1-2008/0303 [302], XSH/TC1-2008/0304 [283], and XSH/TC1-2008/0305 [283] are applied.

End of informative text.

 

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