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NAME
 ispunct — punctuation character test
LIBRARY
 Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
 #include <ctype.h>
int
ispunct(int c);
 
DESCRIPTION
 The 
ispunct() function tests for any printing character except space (' ') or a character for which 
isalnum(3) is true.
 
RETURN VALUES
 The ispunct() function returns zero if the character tests false and returns non-zero if the character tests true.
SEE ALSO
 ctype(3), 
isalnum(3), 
isalpha(3), 
isascii(3), 
isblank(3), 
iscntrl(3), 
isdigit(3), 
isgraph(3), 
islower(3), 
isprint(3), 
isspace(3), 
isupper(3), 
isxdigit(3), 
stdio(3), 
toascii(3), 
tolower(3), 
toupper(3), 
ascii(7) 
STANDARDS
 The ispunct() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”).
CAVEATS
 The argument to 
ispunct() must be 
EOF or representable as an 
unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined. See the 
CAVEATS section of 
ctype(3) for more details.