ISPUNCT(3)                 POSIX Programmer's Manual                ISPUNCT(3)



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NAME
       ispunct, ispunct_l -- test for a punctuation character

SYNOPSIS
       #include <ctype.h>

       int ispunct(int _c);
       int ispunct_l(int _c, locale_t locale);

DESCRIPTION
       For ispunct(): 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.

       The ispunct() and ispunct___l() functions shall test whether _c is a
       character of class punct in the current locale, or in the locale
       represented by locale, respectively; see the Base Definitions volume of
       POSIX.1-2017, Chapter _7, 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.

       The behavior is undefined if the locale argument to ispunct___l() is the
       special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not a valid locale object
       handle.

RETURN VALUE
       The ispunct() and ispunct___l() functions shall return non-zero if _c is a
       punctuation 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(), isblank(), iscntrl(), isdigit(), isgraph(),
       islower(), isprint(), isspace(), isupper(), isxdigit(), setlocale(),
       uselocale()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017, Chapter _7, Locale,
       <ctype.h>, <locale.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology --
       Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the
       original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The
       Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can
       be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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