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Defined in header <ctype.h> | ||
int isalpha(int ch); | ||
Checks if the given character is an alphabetic character, i.e. either an uppercase letter (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ), or a lowercase letter (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).
In locales other than"C", an alphabetic character is a character for whichisupper() orislower() returnstrue or any other character considered alphabetic by the locale. In any case,iscntrl(),isdigit(),ispunct() andisspace() will returnfalse for this character.
The behavior is undefined if the value ofch is not representable asunsignedchar and is not equal toEOF.
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| ch | - | character to classify |
Non-zero value if the character is an alphabetic character, zero otherwise.
Demonstrates the use ofisalpha with different locales (OS-specific).
#include <ctype.h>#include <locale.h>#include <stdio.h> int main(void){unsignedchar c='\xdf';// German letter ß in ISO-8859-1 printf("isalpha('\\xdf') in default C locale returned %d\n",!!isalpha(c)); setlocale(LC_CTYPE,"de_DE.iso88591");printf("isalpha('\\xdf') in ISO-8859-1 locale returned %d\n",!!isalpha(c));}
Possible output:
isalpha('\xdf') in default C locale returned 0isalpha('\xdf') in ISO-8859-1 locale returned 1(C95) | checks if a wide character is alphabetic (function)[edit] |
C++ documentation forisalpha | |
| ASCII values | characters | isalpha | |||||||||||||
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| decimal | hexadecimal | octal | |||||||||||||
| 0–8 | \x0–\x8 | \0–\10 | control codes (NUL, etc.) | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | \x9 | \11 | tab (\t) | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10–13 | \xA–\xD | \12–\15 | whitespaces (\n,\v,\f,\r) | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14–31 | \xE–\x1F | \16–\37 | control codes | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | \x20 | \40 | space | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33–47 | \x21–\x2F | \41–\57 | !"#$%&'()*+,-./ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48–57 | \x30–\x39 | \60–\71 | 0123456789 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 |
| 58–64 | \x3A–\x40 | \72–\100 | :;<=>?@ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 65–70 | \x41–\x46 | \101–\106 | ABCDEF | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 |
| 71–90 | \x47–\x5A | \107–\132 | GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91–96 | \x5B–\x60 | \133–\140 | [\]^_` | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 97–102 | \x61–\x66 | \141–\146 | abcdef | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 |
| 103–122 | \x67–\x7A | \147–\172 | ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 |
| 123–126 | \x7B–\x7E | \173–\176 | {|}~ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 127 | \x7F | \177 | backspace character (DEL) | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |