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.\"	$OpenBSD: islower.3,v 1.9 2007/05/31 19:19:28 jmc Exp $
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.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
.Dt ISLOWER 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm islower
.Nd lower-case character test
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <ctype.h>
.Ft int
.Fn islower "int c"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn islower
function tests for any lower-case letter
.\" or any of an
.\" implementation-defined set of characters
for which none of
.Xr iscntrl 3 ,
.Xr isdigit 3 ,
.Xr ispunct 3 ,
or
.Xr isspace 3
is true.
In the C locale,
.Fn islower
returns true only for the characters defined as lower-case letters.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn islower
macro returns zero if the character tests false or
non-zero if the character tests true.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr isalnum 3 ,
.Xr isalpha 3 ,
.Xr isascii 3 ,
.Xr isblank 3 ,
.Xr iscntrl 3 ,
.Xr isdigit 3 ,
.Xr isgraph 3 ,
.Xr isprint 3 ,
.Xr ispunct 3 ,
.Xr isspace 3 ,
.Xr isupper 3 ,
.Xr isxdigit 3 ,
.Xr stdio 3 ,
.Xr toascii 3 ,
.Xr tolower 3 ,
.Xr toupper 3 ,
.Xr ascii 7
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn islower
function conforms to
.St -ansiC .
.Sh CAVEATS
The argument to
.Fn islower
must be
.Dv EOF
or representable as an
.Li unsigned char ;
otherwise, the result is undefined.