isalpha

Header: <ctype.h>

Checks if the given character is an alphabetic character, i.e. either an uppercase letter (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ), or a lowercase letter (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).

# Declarations

int isalpha( int ch );

# Parameters

# Return value

Non-zero value if the character is an alphabetic character, zero otherwise.

# Example

#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    unsigned char c = '\xdf'; // German letter ß in ISO-8859-1
 
    printf("isalpha('\\xdf') in default C locale returned %d\n", !!isalpha(c));
 
    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "de_DE.iso88591");
    printf("isalpha('\\xdf') in ISO-8859-1 locale returned %d\n", !!isalpha(c));
}

# See also