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| | | | | ---------------------- | | | | int isprint( int ch ); | | |

Checks if the given character can be printed, i.e. it is either a number (0123456789), an uppercase letter (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ), a lowercase letter (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz), a punctuation character (!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~), or space, or any character classified as printable by the current C locale.

The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and is not equal to EOF.

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[edit] Return value

Non-zero value if the character can be printed, zero otherwise.

[edit] Example

#include <ctype.h> #include <locale.h> #include <stdio.h>   int main(void) { unsigned char c = '\xa0'; // the non-breaking space in ISO-8859-1 printf("In the default C locale, \xa0 is %sprintable\n", isprint(c)?"":"not "); setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.iso88591"); printf("In ISO-8859-1 locale, \xa0 is %sprintable\n", isprint(c)?"":"not "); }

Possible output:

In the default C locale, \xa0 is not printable In ISO-8859-1 locale, \xa0 is printable

[edit] References

• C23 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2024):

• 7.4.1.8 The isprint function (p: TBD)

• C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018):

• 7.4.1.8 The isprint function (p: 146)

• C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.4.1.8 The isprint function (p: 202)

• C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.4.1.8 The isprint function (p: 183)

• C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):

• 4.3.1.7 The isprint function

[edit] See also