1.\" $NetBSD: isblank.3,v 1.13 2008/04/17 16:25:36 apb Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information 8.\" Processing Systems. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)isspace.3 5.3 (Berkeley) 7/31/91 35.\" 36.Dd April 17, 2008 37.Dt ISBLANK 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm isblank 41.Nd blank-space character test 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In ctype.h 46.Ft int 47.Fn isblank "int c" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn isblank 51function tests for the standard blank-space characters. 52The standard blank-space characters are the following: 53.Pp 54.Bl -tag -width xxxxx -offset indent -compact 55.It Sq \0 56Space character. 57.It Li \et 58Horizontal tab. 59.El 60.Pp 61In the 62.Em ``C'' 63locale, 64.Fn isblank 65returns true only for the standard blank-space characters. 66.Sh RETURN VALUES 67The 68.Fn isblank 69function returns zero if the character tests false and 70returns non-zero if the character tests true. 71.Sh SEE ALSO 72.Xr ctype 3 , 73.Xr isalnum 3 , 74.Xr isalpha 3 , 75.Xr isascii 3 , 76.Xr iscntrl 3 , 77.Xr isdigit 3 , 78.Xr isgraph 3 , 79.Xr islower 3 , 80.Xr isprint 3 , 81.Xr ispunct 3 , 82.Xr isspace 3 , 83.Xr isupper 3 , 84.Xr isxdigit 3 , 85.Xr stdio 3 , 86.Xr toascii 3 , 87.Xr tolower 3 , 88.Xr toupper 3 , 89.Xr ascii 7 90.Sh CAVEATS 91The argument to 92.Fn isblank 93must be 94.Dv EOF 95or representable as an 96.Vt unsigned char ; 97otherwise, the behavior is undefined. 98See the 99.Sx CAVEATS 100section of 101.Xr ctype 3 102for more details. 103