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32*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Dd April 30, 2010
33*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Dt TOASCII 3
34*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Os
35*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh NAME
36*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Nm toascii
37*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Nd convert a byte to 7-bit ASCII
38*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh LIBRARY
39*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Lb libc
40*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh SYNOPSIS
41*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.In ctype.h
42*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Ft int
43*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn toascii "int c"
44*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh DESCRIPTION
45*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe
46*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn toascii
47*2fe8fb19SBen Grasfunction returns the argument with all but the lower 7 bits cleared.
48*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh RETURN VALUES
49*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe
50*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn toascii
51*2fe8fb19SBen Grasfunction always returns a valid ASCII character.
52*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe result is a non-negative integer in the
53*2fe8fb19SBen Grasrange from 0 to 127, inclusive.
54*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh SEE ALSO
55*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr ctype 3 ,
56*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isalnum 3 ,
57*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isalpha 3 ,
58*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isascii 3 ,
59*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr iscntrl 3 ,
60*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isdigit 3 ,
61*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isgraph 3 ,
62*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr islower 3 ,
63*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isprint 3 ,
64*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr ispunct 3 ,
65*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isspace 3 ,
66*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isupper 3 ,
67*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr isxdigit 3 ,
68*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr stdio 3 ,
69*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr tolower 3 ,
70*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr toupper 3 ,
71*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Xr ascii 7
72*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Sh STANDARDS
73*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe
74*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn toascii
75*2fe8fb19SBen Grasfunction conforms to
76*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.St -xpg4
77*2fe8fb19SBen Grasand
78*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.St -p1003.1-2001 .
79*2fe8fb19SBen GrasThe
80*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.St -p1003.1-2008
81*2fe8fb19SBen Grasrevision however marked it as obsolete, noting that
82*2fe8fb19SBen Gras.Fn toascii
83*2fe8fb19SBen Grascannot be used portably in a localized application.
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