iswspace

iswspace

Defined in header <wctype.h>
int iswspace( wint_t ch );		(since C95)

Checks if the given wide character is a whitespace character, i.e. either space (0x20), form feed (0x0c), line feed (0x0a), carriage return (0x0d), horizontal tab (0x09), vertical tab (0x0b) or any whitespace character specific to the current locale.

Parameters

ch

-

wide character

Return value

Non-zero value if the wide character is a whitespace character, zero otherwise.

Notes

ISO 30112 defines POSIX space characters as Unicode characters U+0009..U+000D, U+0020, U+1680, U+180E, U+2000..U+2006, U+2008..U+200A, U+2028, U+2029, U+205F, and U+3000.

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <wctype.h>
#include <locale.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    wchar_t c = L'\u2003'; // Unicode character 'EM SPACE'
    printf("in the default locale, iswspace(%#x) = %d\n", c, !!iswspace(c));
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    printf("in Unicode locale, iswspace(%#x) = %d\n", c, !!iswspace(c));
}

Output:

in the default locale, iswspace(0x2003) = 0
in Unicode locale, iswspace(0x2003) = 1

References

C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.30.2.1.10 The iswspace function (p: 450-451)

C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.25.2.1.10 The iswspace function (p: 396-397)

See also

isspace

checks if a character is a space character (function)

ASCII values			characters	iscntrl iswcntrl.	isprint iswprint.	isspace iswspace.	isblank iswblank.	isgraph iswgraph.	ispunct iswpunct.	isalnum iswalnum.	isalpha iswalpha.	isupper iswupper.	islower iswlower.	isdigit iswdigit.	isxdigit iswxdigit.
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	GHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ	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	ghijklmnop qrstuvwxyz	0	≠0	0	0	≠0	0	≠0	≠0	0	≠0	0	0
123–126	\x7B–\x7E	\172–\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

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