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<h3 class="section">3.10 <code>isspace</code>, <code>isspace_l</code>—whitespace character predicate</h3>
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<p><strong>Synopsis</strong>
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<pre class="example">#include <ctype.h>
int isspace(int <var>c</var>);
#include <ctype.h>
int isspace_l(int <var>c</var>, locale_t <var>locale</var>);
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<p><strong>Description</strong><br>
<code>isspace</code> is a macro which classifies singlebyte charset values by table
lookup. It is a predicate returning non-zero for whitespace
characters, and 0 for other characters. It is defined only when <code>isascii</code>(<var>c</var>) is true or <var>c</var> is EOF.
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<p><code>isspace_l</code> is like <code>isspace</code> but performs the check based on the
locale specified by the locale object locale. If <var>locale</var> is
LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or not a valid locale object, the behaviour is undefined.
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<p>You can use a compiled subroutine instead of the macro definition by
undefining the macro using ‘<code>#undef isspace</code>’ or ‘<code>#undef isspace_l</code>’.
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<p><strong>Returns</strong><br>
<code>isspace</code>, <code>isspace_l</code> return non-zero if <var>c</var> is a space, tab,
carriage return, new line, vertical tab, or formfeed (<code>0x09</code>–<code>0x0D</code>,
<code>0x20</code>), or one of the other space characters in non-ASCII charsets.
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<p><strong>Portability</strong><br>
<code>isspace</code> is ANSI C.
<code>isspace_l</code> is POSIX-1.2008.
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<p>No supporting OS subroutines are required.
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