Determine the type of characters being input in the C language.
In C programming language, you can use functions from the header file ctype.h to determine the type of input characters. Here are some commonly used functions:
- Is the character alphanumeric?
- Does the character c belong to the alphabet?
- Does the character c consist of only digits?
- Is the character c lowercase?
- does c contain only uppercase letters
- Is the character c a white space character?
- Is the character c a punctuation mark?
- The character c is a hexadecimal digit.
The return value of these functions being non-zero (true) indicates that the character meets the type condition, while a return value of zero (false) indicates that the character does not meet the type condition.
Here is a sample program that determines the type of character input by the user.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
int main() {
char c;
printf("请输入一个字符:");
scanf("%c", &c);
if (isalnum(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是字母或数字\n");
} else if (isalpha(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是字母\n");
} else if (isdigit(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是数字\n");
} else if (islower(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是小写字母\n");
} else if (isupper(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是大写字母\n");
} else if (isspace(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是空白字符\n");
} else if (ispunct(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是标点符号\n");
} else if (isxdigit(c)) {
printf("输入的字符是十六进制数字\n");
} else {
printf("输入的字符无法识别\n");
}
return 0;
}
After running the program, the user can input a character, and the program will determine and output the type of that character.