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iswblank

ISWBLANK(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       ISWBLANK(3)

NAME

       iswblank - test for whitespace wide character

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wctype.h>

       int iswblank(wint_t wc);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       iswblank():
	      _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L

DESCRIPTION

       The  iswblank() function is the wide-character equivalent of the isblank(3) function.  It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to
       the wide-character class "blank".

       The wide-character class "blank" is a subclass of the wide-character class "space".

       Being a subclass of the wide-character class "space", the wide-character class "blank" is disjoint from the  wide-character  class  "graph"
       and therefore also disjoint from its subclasses "alnum", "alpha", "upper", "lower", "digit", "xdigit", "punct".

       The wide-character class "blank" always contains at least the space character and the control character '	'.

RETURN VALUE

       The  iswblank()	function  returns  nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "blank".  Otherwise, it returns
       zero.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       +-----------+---------------+----------------+
       |Interface  | Attribute	   | Value	    |
       +-----------+---------------+----------------+
       |iswblank() | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
       +-----------+---------------+----------------+
CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES

       The behavior of iswblank() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

SEE ALSO

       isblank(3), iswctype(3)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and  the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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								    2016-03-15							       ISWBLANK(3)

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