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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.
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.
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IEEE/The Open Group 2017 ISGRAPH(3POSIX)
Description
For isgraph(): 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 isgraph() and isgraph_l() functions shall test whether c is a character of class graph in the current
locale, or in the locale represented by locale, respectively; see the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter7, Locale.
The c argument is an int, the value of which the application shall ensure is a character representable as
an unsignedchar 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 isgraph_l() is the special locale object
LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not a valid locale object handle.
Errors
No errors are defined.
Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.Examples
None.
Future Directions
None.
Name
isgraph, isgraph_l — test for a visible character
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface
may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface
may not be implemented on Linux.
Rationale
None.
Return Value
The isgraph() and isgraph_l() functions shall return non-zero if c is a character with a visible
representation; otherwise, they shall return 0.
See Also
isalnum(), isalpha(), isblank(), iscntrl(), isdigit(), islower(), isprint(), ispunct(), isspace(),
isupper(), isxdigit(), setlocale(), uselocale()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter7, Locale, <ctype.h>, <locale.h>Synopsis
#include <ctype.h>
int isgraph(int c);
int isgraph_l(int c, locale_t locale);
