iswblank - Man Page

test for whitespace wide character

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Synopsis

#include <wctype.h>

int iswblank(wint_t wc);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

iswblank():

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L

Description

The iswblank() function is the wide-character equivalent of the isblank(3) function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "blank".

The wide-character class "blank" is a subclass of the wide-character class "space".

Being a subclass of the wide-character class "space", the wide-character class "blank" is disjoint from the wide-character class "graph" and therefore also disjoint from its subclasses "alnum", "alpha", "upper", "lower", "digit", "xdigit", "punct".

The wide-character class "blank" always contains at least the space character and the control character '\t'.

Return Value

The iswblank() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "blank". Otherwise, it returns zero.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
iswblank()Thread safetyMT-Safe locale

Standards

POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001.

Notes

The behavior of iswblank() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

See Also

isblank(3), iswctype(3)

Referenced By

isalpha(3), iswctype(3).

2023-10-31 Linux man-pages 6.7