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std::islower(3)		      C++ Standard Libary	       std::islower(3)

NAME
       std::islower - std::islower

Synopsis
	  Defined in header <cctype>
	  int islower( int ch );

	  Checks if the	given character	is classified as a lowercase character
       according to
	  the  current	C  locale. In the default "C" locale, std::islower re-
       turns a nonzero
	  value	only for the lowercase letters (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).

	  If islower returns a nonzero value, it is guaranteed that std::iscn-
       trl,
	  std::isdigit,	std::ispunct, and std::isspace	return	zero  for  the
       same character in
	  the same C locale.

	  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 a lowercase letter, zero	other-
       wise.

Notes
	  Like all other functions from	<cctype>, the behavior of std::islower
       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_islower(char ch)
	{
	    return std::islower(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_lowers(const std::string& s)
	{
	    return std::count_if(s.begin(), s.end(),
			      //	static_cast<int(*)(int)>(std::islower)
       // wrong
			      //  [](int   c){	 return	  std::islower(c);   }
       // wrong
			      //   [](char   c){   return  std::islower(c);  }
       // wrong
				 [](unsigned char c){ return  std::islower(c);
       } // correct
				);
	}

Example
       // Run this code

	#include <cctype>
	#include <clocale>
	#include <iostream>

	int main()
	{
	    unsigned char c = '\xe5'; // letter	 in ISO-8859-1

	    std::cout << "islower(\'\\xe5\', default C locale) returned	"
		      << std::boolalpha	<< (bool)std::islower(c) << '\n';

	    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.iso88591");
	    std::cout << "islower(\'\\xe5\', ISO-8859-1	locale)	returned "
		      << std::boolalpha	<< (bool)std::islower(c) << '\n';

	}

Possible output:
	islower('\xe5',	default	C locale) returned false
	islower('\xe5',	ISO-8859-1 locale) returned true

See also
	  islower(std::locale)	checks	if a character is classified as	lower-
       case by a locale
			       (function template)
	  iswlower	       checks if a wide	character is lowercase
			       (function)
	  C documentation for
	  islower

	       ASCII values	       characters    iscntrl  isprint  isspace
       isblank	isgraph	 ispunct  isalnum  isalpha  isupper  islower   isdigit
       isxdigit	 decimal  hexadecimal	 octal			 iswcntrl isw-
       print 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)

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