islower

Header: <ctype.h>

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).

# Declarations

int islower( int ch );

# Parameters

# Return value

Non-zero value if the character is a lowercase letter, zero otherwise.

# Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <locale.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 " );
}

# See also