Checks if the given character is classified as a lowercase character according to the current C locale. In the default "C" locale, islower
returns true only for the lowercase letters (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
).
If islower
returns true, it is guaranteed that iscntrl, isdigit, ispunct, and isspace return false for the same character in the same C locale.
The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and is not equal to EOF.
[edit] Parameters ch - character to classify [edit] Return valueNon-zero value if the character is a lowercase letter, zero otherwise.
[edit] Example#include <ctype.h> #include <locale.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { unsigned char c = '\xe5'; // letter å in ISO-8859-1 printf("In the default C locale, \\xe5 is %slowercase\n", islower(c) ? "" : "not " ); setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.iso88591"); printf("In ISO-8859-1 locale, \\xe5 is %slowercase\n", islower(c) ? "" : "not " ); }
Possible output:
In the default C locale, \xe5 is not lowercase In ISO-8859-1 locale, \xe5 is lowercase[edit] References
islower
iswlower
\x0
â\x8
\0
â\10
control codes (NUL
, etc.) â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
9 \x9
\11
tab (\t
) â 0
0
â 0
â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10â13 \xA
â\xD
\12
â\15
whitespaces (\n
, \v
, \f
, \r
) â 0
0
â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
14â31 \xE
â\x1F
\16
â\37
control codes â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
32 \x20
\40
space 0
â 0
â 0
â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
33â47 \x21
â\x2F
\41
â\57
!"#$%&'()*+,-./
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
48â57 \x30
â\x39
\60
â\71
0123456789
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
0
â 0
0
0
0
â 0
â 0
58â64 \x3A
â\x40
\72
â\100
:;<=>?@
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
65â70 \x41
â\x46
\101
â\106
ABCDEF
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
0
â 0
â 0
â 0
0
0
â 0
71â90 \x47
â\x5A
\107
â\132
GHIJKLMNOP
QRSTUVWXYZ
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
0
â 0
â 0
â 0
0
0
0
91â96 \x5B
â\x60
\133
â\140
[\]^_`
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
97â102 \x61
â\x66
\141
â\146
abcdef
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
0
â 0
â 0
0
â 0
0
â 0
103â122 \x67
â\x7A
\147
â\172
ghijklmnop
qrstuvwxyz
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
0
â 0
â 0
0
â 0
0
0
123â126 \x7B
â\x7E
\173
â\176
{|}~
0
â 0
0
0
â 0
â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
127 \x7F
\177
backspace character (DEL
) â 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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