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

NAME
     std::iswalpha - std::iswalpha

Synopsis
	Defined in header <cwctype>
	int iswalpha( std::wint_t ch );

	Checks	if the given wide character is an alphabetic character, i.e. ei-
     ther an
	uppercase letter (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ), a lowercase letter
	(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) or any alphabetic character specific to the
     current
	locale.

	If the value of ch is neither representable as a wchar_t  nor  equal  to
     the value of
	the macro WEOF, the behavior is undefined.

Parameters
	ch - wide character

Return value
	Non-zero  value if the wide character is an alphabetic character, 0 oth-
     erwise.

Notes
	ISO 30112 specifies which Unicode characters are include in POSIX  alpha
     category.

Example
     // Run this code

      #include <clocale>
      #include <cwctype>
      #include <iostream>

      int main()
      {
	  wchar_t c = L'\u0b83'; // Tamil sign Visarga ('a(R)')

	  std::cout << std::hex << std::showbase << std::boolalpha;
	  std::cout  <<  "in the default locale, iswalpha(" << (std::wint_t)c <<
     ") = "
		    << (bool)std::iswalpha(c) << '\n';

	  std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
	  std::cout << "in Unicode locale, iswalpha(" << (std::wint_t)c << ")  =
     "
		    << (bool)std::iswalpha(c) << '\n';
      }

Possible output:
      in the default locale, iswalpha(0xb83) = false
      in Unicode locale, iswalpha(0xb83) = true

See also
	isalpha(std::locale)  checks  if a character is classified as alphabetic
     by a locale
			     (function template)
	isalpha 	     checks if a character is alphabetic
			     (function)
	C documentation for
	iswalpha

	     ASCII values	      characters     iscntrl   isprint	 isspace
     isblank   isgraph	 ispunct   isalnum   isalpha   isupper	islower  isdigit
     isxdigit decimal hexadecimal    octal		      iswcntrl	iswprint
     iswspace  iswblank  iswgraph  iswpunct  iswalnum iswalpha iswupper iswlower
     iswdigit iswxdigit  0a8	  \x0a\x8      \0a\10	  control  codes    a  0
     0	       0	 0	  0	   0	    0	     0	      0        0
     0	      0
				   (NUL,   etc.)    9	      \x9	     \11
     tab  (\t)	      a 0	0	 a 0	   a 0	     0	      0        0
     0	      0        0	0	 0
				   whitespaces	 10a13	   \xAa\xD	 \12a\15
     (\n,  \v,	\f,    a 0	 0	  a 0	    0	     0	      0        0
     0	      0        0	0	 0
				   \r)	14a31	 \xEa\x1F     \16a\37	 control
     codes    a  0	 0	  0	   0	    0	     0	      0        0
     0	       0	 0	   0   32	 \x20	       \40	   space
     0	       a  0	   a  0        a  0	   0	     0	      0        0
     0	      0        0	0 33a47   \x21a\x2F   \41a\57	 !"#$%&'()*+,-./
     0	       a  0	   0	     0	       a  0	   a  0       0        0
     0	      0 	0	  0  48a57    \x30a\x39    \60a\71    0123456789
     0	       a  0	   0	     0	       a  0	   0	     a 0       0
     0	      0        a 0	  a  0	58a64	 \x3Aa\x40    \72a\100	 :;<=>?@
     0	       a  0	   0	     0	       a  0	   a  0       0        0
     0	       0	 0	   0  65a70	\x41a\x46     \101a\106   ABCDEF
     0	       a  0	   0	     0	       a  0	  0	   a 0	     a 0
     a 0       0	0	 a 0 71a90    \x47a\x5A    \107a\132  GHIJKLMNOP
     0	       a  0	   0	     0	       a  0	  0	   a 0	     a 0
     a 0       0	0	 0
				   QRSTUVWXYZ  91a96	 \x5Ba\x60     \133a\140
     [\]^_`	      0        a 0	 0	  0	   a 0	     a 0       0
     0	      0        0	0	 0 97a102  \x61a\x66   \141a\146  abcdef
     0	       a  0	   0	     0	       a  0	  0	   a 0	     a 0
     0	      a 0	0	 a 0 103a122  \x67a\x7A    \147a\172  ghijklmnop
     0	       a  0	   0	     0	       a  0	  0	   a 0	     a 0
     0	      a 0	0	 0
				   qrstuvwxyz 123a126 \x7Ba\x7E   \172a\176 {|}~
     0	      a 0	 0	   0	     a	0	 a  0	     0	       0
     0	       0	 0	   0  127      \x7F	    \177       backspace
     a 0       0	0	 0	  0	   0	    0	     0	       0
     0	      0        0
				   character (DEL)

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