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std::isupper: std::isupper

NAME

std::isupper - std::isupper

Synopsis


Defined in header <cctype>
int isupper( int ch );


Checks if the given character is an uppercase character as classified by the currently installed C locale. In the default "C" locale, isupper returns a nonzero value only for the uppercase letters (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ).
If isupper returns a nonzero value, it is guaranteed that iscntrl, isdigit, ispunct, and isspace return zero 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.

Parameters


ch - character to classify

Return value


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

Notes


Like all other functions from <cctype>, the behavior of std::isupper is undefined if the argument's value is neither representable as unsigned char nor equal to EOF. To use these functions safely with plain chars (or signed chars), the argument should first be converted to unsigned char:


  bool my_isupper(char ch)
  {
      return std::isupper(static_cast<unsigned char>(ch));
  }


Similarly, they should not be directly used with standard algorithms when the iterator's value type is char or signed char. Instead, convert the value to unsigned char first:


  int count_uppers(const std::string& s)
  {
      return std::count_if(s.begin(), s.end(),
                        // static_cast<int(*)(int)>(std::isupper) // wrong
                        // [](int c){ return std::isupper(c); } // wrong
                        // [](char c){ return std::isupper(c); } // wrong
                           [](unsigned char c){ return std::isupper(c); } // correct
                          );
  }

Example


// Run this code


  #include <iostream>
  #include <cctype>
  #include <clocale>


  int main()
  {
      unsigned char c = '\xc6'; // letter Æ in ISO-8859-1


      std::cout << "isupper(\'\\xc6\', default C locale) returned "
                 << std::boolalpha << (bool)std::isupper(c) << '\n';


      std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.iso88591");
      std::cout << "isupper(\'\\xc6\', ISO-8859-1 locale) returned "
                << std::boolalpha << (bool)std::isupper(c) << '\n';


  }

Output:


  isupper('\xc6', default C locale) returned false
  isupper('\xc6', ISO-8859-1 locale) returned true

See also


                     checks if a character is classified as uppercase by a locale
isupper(std::locale) (function template)
                     checks if a wide character is an uppercase character
iswupper (function)


ASCII values iscntrl isprint isspace isblank isgraph ispunct isalnum isalpha isupper islower isdigit isxdigit
decimal hexadecimal octal characters iswcntrl iswprint iswspace iswblank iswgraph iswpunct iswalnum iswalpha iswupper iswlower iswdigit iswxdigit


0–8 \x0–\x8 \0–\10 control codes (NUL, etc.) ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 \x9 \11 tab (\t) ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10–13 \xA–\xD \12–\15 whitespaces (\n, \v, \f, \r) ≠0 0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14–31 \xE–\x1F \16–\37 control codes ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 \x20 \40 space 0 ≠0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33–47 \x21–\x2F \41–\57 !"#$%&'()*+,-./ 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0
48–57 \x30–\x39 \60–\71 0123456789 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 0 0 0 ≠0 ≠0
58–64 \x3A–\x40 \72–\100:;<=>?@ 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0
65–70 \x41–\x46 \101–\10ABCDEF 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0
71–90 \x47–\x5A \107–\13GHIJKLMNOP 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0
                              QRSTUVWXYZ
91–96 \x5B–\x60 \133–\14[\]^_` 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0
97–102\x61–\x66 \141–\14abcdef 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0
103–12\x67–\x7A \147–\17ghijklmnop 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 ≠0 0 0
                              qrstuvwxyz
123–12\x7B–\x7E \172–\17{|}~ 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0
127 \x7F \177 backspace character (DEL) ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0