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std::isalpha(3) C++ Standard Libary std::isalpha(3) NAME std::isalpha - std::isalpha Synopsis Defined in header <cctype> int isalpha( int ch ); Checks if the given character is an alphabetic character as classi- fied by the currently installed C locale. In the default locale, the following characters are alphabetic: * uppercase letters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ * lowercase letters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz In locales other than "C", an alphabetic character is a character for which std::isupper() or std::islower() returns non-zero or any other char- acter considered alphabetic by the locale. In any case, std::iscntrl(), std::is- digit(), std::ispunct() and std::isspace() will return zero for this charac- ter. The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and is not equal to EOF. Parameters ch - character to classify Return value Non-zero value if the character is an alphabetic character, zero otherwise. Notes Like all other functions from <cctype>, the behavior of std::isalpha is undefined if the argument's value is neither representable as unsigned char nor equal to EOF. To use these functions safely with plain chars (or signed chars), the argument should first be converted to unsigned char: bool my_isalpha(char ch) { return std::isalpha(static_cast<unsigned char>(ch)); } Similarly, they should not be directly used with standard algorithms when the iterator's value type is char or signed char. Instead, convert the value to unsigned char first: int count_alphas(const std::string& s) { return std::count_if(s.begin(), s.end(), // static_cast<int(*)(int)>(std::isalpha) // wrong // [](int c){ return std::isalpha(c); } // wrong // [](char c){ return std::isalpha(c); } // wrong [](unsigned char c){ return std::isalpha(c); } // correct ); } Example Demonstrates the use of isalpha() with different locales (OS-spe- cific). // Run this code #include <iostream> #include <cctype> #include <clocale> int main() { unsigned char c = '\xdf'; // German letter in ISO-8859-1 std::cout << "isalpha(\'\\xdf\', default C locale) returned " << std::boolalpha << (bool)std::isalpha(c) << '\n'; std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.iso88591"); std::cout << "isalpha(\'\\xdf\', ISO-8859-1 locale) returned " << std::boolalpha << (bool)std::isalpha(c) << '\n'; } Output: isalpha('\xdf', default C locale) returned false isalpha('\xdf', ISO-8859-1 locale) returned true See also isalpha(std::locale) checks if a character is classified as alpha- betic by a locale (function template) iswalpha checks if a wide character is alphabetic (function) ASCII values characters iscntrl isprint is- space isblank isgraph ispunct isalnum isalpha isupper islower isdigit isxdigit decimal hexadecimal octal iswcntrl iswprint iswspace iswblank iswgraph iswpunct iswalnum iswalpha iswupper iswlower iswdigit iswxdigit 08 \x0\x8 \0\10 control codes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (NUL, etc.) 9 \x9 \11 tab (\t) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 whitespaces 1013 \xA\xD \12\15 (\n, \v, \f, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 \r) 1431 \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 3347 \x21\x2F \41\57 !"#$%&'()*+,-./ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4857 \x30\x39 \60\71 0123456789 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5864 \x3A\x40 \72\100 :;<=>?@ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6570 \x41\x46 \101\106 ABCDEF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7190 \x47\x5A \107\132 GHIJKLMNOP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 QRSTUVWXYZ 9196 \x5B\x60 \133\140 [\]^_` 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 97102 \x61\x66 \141\146 abcdef 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 103122 \x67\x7A \147\172 ghijklmnop 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 qrstuvwxyz 123126 \x7B\x7E \172\176 {|}~ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 127 \x7F \177 backspace 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 character (DEL) http://cppreference.com 2022.07.31 std::isalpha(3)
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