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36.Dd April 17, 2008
37.Dt ISPUNCT 3
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm ispunct
41.Nd punctuation character test
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libc
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In ctype.h
46.Ft int
47.Fn ispunct "int c"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn ispunct
51function tests for any printing character except space (' ') or a
52character for which
53.Xr isalnum 3
54is true.
55.Sh RETURN VALUES
56The
57.Fn ispunct
58function returns zero if the character tests false and
59returns non-zero if the character tests true.
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr ctype 3 ,
62.Xr isalnum 3 ,
63.Xr isalpha 3 ,
64.Xr isascii 3 ,
65.Xr isblank 3 ,
66.Xr iscntrl 3 ,
67.Xr isdigit 3 ,
68.Xr isgraph 3 ,
69.Xr islower 3 ,
70.Xr isprint 3 ,
71.Xr isspace 3 ,
72.Xr isupper 3 ,
73.Xr isxdigit 3 ,
74.Xr stdio 3 ,
75.Xr toascii 3 ,
76.Xr tolower 3 ,
77.Xr toupper 3 ,
78.Xr ascii 7
79.Sh STANDARDS
80The
81.Fn ispunct
82function conforms to
83.St -ansiC .
84.Sh CAVEATS
85The argument to
86.Fn ispunct
87must be
88.Dv EOF
89or representable as an
90.Vt unsigned char ;
91otherwise, the behavior is undefined.
92See the
93.Sx CAVEATS
94section of
95.Xr ctype 3
96for more details.
97