ispunct() function in Csyntax:
The ispunct() function checks whether a character is a punctuation character or not.
The term “punctuation” as defined by this function includes all printable characters that are neither alphanumeric nor a space. For example ‘@’, ‘$’, etc.
This function is defined in ctype.h header file.
syntax:
int ispunct(int ch); ch: character to be checked. Return Value : function return nonzero if character is a punctuation character; otherwise zero is returned.
CPP
// Program to check punctuation #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> int main() { // The punctuations in str are '!' and ',' char str[] = "welcome! to w3wiki, " ; int i = 0, count = 0; while (str[i]) { if (ispunct(str[i])) count++; i++; } printf ( "Sentence contains %d punctuation" " characters.\n" , count); return 0; } |
Output:
Sentence contains 2 punctuation characters.
CPP
// C program to print all Punctuations #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> int main() { int i; printf ( "All punctuation characters in C" " programming are: \n" ); for (i = 0; i <= 255; ++i) if (ispunct(i) != 0) printf ( "%c " , i); return 0; } |
All punctuation characters in C programming are: ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * +, - . / : ; ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~