iswlower

< c‎ | string‎ | wide
 
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Null-terminated wide strings
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Defined in header <wctype.h>
int iswlower( wint_t ch );
 (since C95)

Checks if the given wide character is a lowercase letter, i.e. one of abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz or any lowercase letter specific to the current locale.

Parameters

ch - wide character

Return value

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

Notes

ISO 30112 specifies which Unicode characters are include in POSIX lower category.

Example

Run this code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <wctype.h>
#include <locale.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    wchar_t c = L'\u0444'; // Cyrillic small letter ef ('ф')
    printf("in the default locale, iswlower(%#x) = %d\n", c, !!iswlower(c));
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    printf("in Unicode locale, iswlower(%#x) = %d\n", c, !!iswlower(c));
}

Output: 

in the default locale, iswlower(0x444) = 0
in Unicode locale, iswlower(0x444) = 1

References

  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.30.2.1.7 The iswlower function (p: 450)
  • C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
  • 7.25.2.1.7 The iswlower function (p: 396)

See also

 checks if a character is lowercase
(function)
ASCII values characters

iscntrl
iswcntrl

isprint
iswprint

isspace
iswspace

isblank
iswblank

isgraph
iswgraph

ispunct
iswpunct

isalnum
iswalnum

isalpha
iswalpha

isupper
iswupper

islower
iswlower

isdigit
iswdigit

isxdigit
iswxdigit

decimal hexadecimal octal
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–\106 ABCDEF 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0
71–90 \x47–\x5A \107–\132 GHIJKLMNOP
QRSTUVWXYZ 		0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0
91–96 \x5B–\x60 \133–\140 [\]^_` 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 0 0 0 0 0
97–102 \x61–\x66 \141–\146 abcdef 0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0
103–122 \x67–\x7A \147–\172 ghijklmnop
qrstuvwxyz 		0 ≠0 0 0 ≠0 0 ≠0 ≠0 0 ≠0 0 0
123–126 \x7B–\x7E \172–\176 {|}~ 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