cctype (ctype.h)

cctype (ctype.h)

Character handling functions 字符处理

This header declares a set of functions to classify and transform individual characters. 分类和转换

All these functions take as parameter the int equivalent of one character and return an int , that can either be another character or a value representing a boolean value: 成功 != 0 ,失败 = 0
an int value of 0 means false, and an int value different from 0 represents true.

There are two sets of functions:
First a set of classifying functions that check whether the character passed as parameter belongs to a certain category. These are:

isalnum

Check if character is alphanumeric (function)   文字字母

isalpha

Check if character is alphabetic (function)   字母的

iscntrl

Check if character is a control character (function)   控制符,like '\n'

isdigit

Check if character is decimal digit (function)   数字

isgraph

Check if character has graphical representation (function)

islower

Check if character is lowercase letter (function)   小写

isprint

Check if character is printable (function)   可打印字符, '\n'不可以

ispunct

Check if character is a punctuation character (function)

isspace

Check if character is a white-space (function)

standard white-space characters are:

' '	(0x20)	space (SPC)
'\t'	(0x09)	horizontal tab (TAB)
'\n'	(0x0a)	newline (LF)
'\v'	(0x0b)	vertical tab (VT)
'\f'	(0x0c)	feed (FF)
'\r'	(0x0d)	carriage return (CR)

isupper

Check if character is uppercase letter (function)   大写

isxdigit

Check if character is hexadecimal digit (function)

And secondly, two functions to convert between letter cases:

tolower

Convert uppercase letter to lowercase (function)

toupper

Convert lowercase letter to uppercase (function)

For the first set, here is a map of how the original 127-character ASCII set is considered by each function (an x indicates that the function returns true on that character)

ASCII values	characters	iscntrl	isspace	isupper	islower	isalpha	isdigit	isxdigit	isalnum	ispunct	isgraph	isprint
0x00 .. 0x08	NUL, (other control codes)	x
0x09 .. 0x0D	(white-space control codes: '\t','\f','\v','\n','\r')	x	x
0x0E .. 0x1F	(other control codes)	x
0x20	space (' ')		x									x
0x21 .. 0x2F	!"#$%&'()*+,-./									x	x	x
0x30 .. 0x39	01234567890						x	x	x		x	x
0x3a .. 0x40	:;<=>?@									x	x	x
0x41 .. 0x46	ABCDEF			x		x		x	x		x	x
0x47 .. 0x5A	GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ			x		x			x		x	x
0x5B .. 0x60	[\]^_`									x	x	x
0x61 .. 0x66	abcdef				x	x		x	x		x	x
0x67 .. 0x7A	ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz				x	x			x		x	x
0x7B .. 0x7E	{|}~									x	x	x
0x7F	(DEL)	x

The characters in the extended character set (above 0x7F) may belong to diverse categories depending on the locale and the platform. As a general rule, ispunct , isgraph and isprint return true on these for the standard C locale on most platforms supporting extended character sets.

ps:copy from C++ Reference http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cctype/