C <wctype.h> - iswcntrl() Function

The C <wctype.h> iswcntrl() function is used to check if the given wide character is a control character. A control character is a character that does not occupy a printing position on a display. In the default "C" locale, a control character are those between ASCII codes 0x00 (NUL) and 0x1f (US), plus 0x7f (DEL).

Other locales may consider a different selection of wide characters as control characters.

Syntax

• C95

int iswcntrl ( wint_t ch );  

Parameters

Return Value

Returns non-zero value (i.e, true) if ch is a control character, else returns zero (i.e, false).

Example:

The example below shows the usage of iswcntrl() function.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <wctype.h>
 
int main (){
  wchar_t str[50] = L"Hello\nWorld!";

  //replacing all wide control 
  //characters with @ in str
  int i = 0;
  while(str[i]) {
    if(iswcntrl(str[i]))
      str[i] = L'@';
    i++;
  }

  //displaying the output
  printf("str contains: %ls", str);  
  return 0;
}

The output of the above code will be:

str contains: Hello@World!