std::isalpha
| Defined in header  <cctype> | ||
| int isalpha( int ch ); | ||
Checks if the given character is an alphabetic character as classified by the currently installed C locale. In the default locale, the following characters are alphabetic:
-  uppercase letters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
-  lowercase letters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
In locales other than "C", an alphabetic character is a character for which std::isupper() or std::islower() returns non-zero or any other character considered alphabetic by the locale. In any case, std::iscntrl(), std::isdigit(), std::ispunct() and std::isspace() will return zero for this character.
The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and is not equal to EOF.
| Contents | 
[edit] Parameters
| ch | - | character to classify | 
[edit] Return value
Non-zero value if the character is an alphabetic character, zero otherwise.
[edit] Example
Demonstrates the use of isalpha() with different locales (OS-specific).
#include <iostream> #include <cctype> #include <clocale> int main() { unsigned char c = '\xdf'; // German letter ß in ISO-8859-1 std::cout << "isalpha(\'\\xdf\', default C locale) returned " << std::boolalpha << (bool)std::isalpha(c) << '\n'; std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.iso88591"); std::cout << "isalpha(\'\\xdf\', ISO-8859-1 locale) returned " << std::boolalpha << (bool)std::isalpha(c) << '\n'; }
Output:
isalpha('\xdf', default C locale) returned false
isalpha('\xdf', ISO-8859-1 locale) returned true[edit] See also
| checks if a character is classified as alphabetic by a locale (function template) | |
| checks if a wide character is alphabetic (function) | |
| C documentation for isalpha | |
| ASCII values (hex) | characters | isalpha  | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 - 8 | 0x00-0x08 | control codes ( NUL, etc.) | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 9 | 0x09 | tab ( \t) | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 10 - 13 | 0x0A-0x0D | whitespaces ( \n,\v,\f,\r) | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 14 - 31 | 0x0E-0x1F | control codes | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 32 | 0x20 | space | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 33 - 47 | 0x21-0x2F | !"#$%&'()*+,-./ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 48 - 57 | 0x30-0x39 | 0123456789 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 
| 58 - 64 | 0x3a-0x40 | :;<=>?@ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 65 - 70 | 0x41-0x46 | ABCDEF | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 
| 71 - 90 | 0x47-0x5A | GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 91 - 96 | 0x5B-0x60 | [\]^_` | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 97 -102 | 0x61-0x66 | abcdef | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 
| 103-122 | 0x67-0x7A | ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 123-126 | 0x7B-0x7E | {|}~ | 0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | ≠0 | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| 127 | 0x7F | backspace character ( DEL) | ≠0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 


