ISALNUM(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual						       ISALNUM(3P)

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NAME

       isalnum, isalnum_l -- test for an alphanumeric character

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ctype.h>

       int isalnum(int c);
       int isalnum_l(int c, locale_t locale);

DESCRIPTION

       For isalnum(): The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements
       described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2008 defers to the ISO C standard.

       The isalnum() and isalnum_l() functions shall test whether c is a character of class alpha or digit in the current locale, or in the locale
       represented by locale, respectively; see the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, Chapter 7, Locale.

       The c argument is an int, the value of which the application shall ensure is representable as an unsigned char or equal to the value of the
       macro EOF. If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.

       The  behavior  is  undefined  if  the locale argument to isalnum_l() is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not a valid locale
       object handle.

RETURN VALUE

       The isalnum() and isalnum_l() functions shall return non-zero if c is an alphanumeric character; otherwise, they shall return 0.

ERRORS

       No errors are defined.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       To ensure applications portability, especially across natural languages, only these functions and the  functions  in  the  reference  pages
       listed in the SEE ALSO section should be used for character classification.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       isalpha(), isblank(), iscntrl(), isdigit(), isgraph(), islower(), isprint(), ispunct(), isspace(), isupper(), isxdigit(), setlocale(), use-
       locale()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, Chapter 7, Locale, <ctype.h>, <stdio.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy  --	Portable  Operating  System  Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of
       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
       event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan-
       dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .

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/The Open Group						       2013							       ISALNUM(3P)