NAME

iscntrl, iscntrl_l — test for a control character

SYNOPSIS

#include <ctype.h>

int iscntrl(int c);


[CX] int iscntrl_l(int c, locale_t locale);

DESCRIPTION

For iscntrl(): ^[CX]  The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2024 defers to the ISO C standard.

The iscntrl() ^[CX]  and iscntrl_l()  functions shall test whether c is a character of class cntrl in the current locale, ^[CX]  or in the locale represented by locale, respectively; see XBD 7. Locale.

The c argument is a type int, the value of which the application shall ensure is a character representable as an unsigned char or equal to the value of the macro EOF. If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.

^[CX] The behavior is undefined if the locale argument to iscntrl_l() is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not a valid locale object handle.

RETURN VALUE

The iscntrl() ^[CX]  and iscntrl_l()  functions shall return non-zero if c is a control character; otherwise, they shall return 0.

ERRORS

No errors are defined.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

To ensure applications portability, especially across natural languages, only these functions and the functions in the reference pages listed in the SEE ALSO section should be used for character classification.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

isalnum, isalpha, isblank, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper, isxdigit, setlocale, uselocale

XBD 7. Locale, <ctype.h>, <locale.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 1. Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID.

Issue 6

The normative text is updated to avoid use of the term "must" for application requirements.

Issue 7

The iscntrl_l() function is added from The Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 4.

POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 1, XSH/TC1-2008/0283 [302], XSH/TC1-2008/0284 [283], and XSH/TC1-2008/0285 [283] are applied.