What is the symbol for whitespace in C?

Question

I am trying to figure out how to check if a character is equal to white-space in C. I know that tabs are \'\\t\' and newlines are \'\\n\', but I wa

Answer 1

The character representation of a Space is simply ' '.

void foo (const char *s)
{
    unsigned char c;
    ...
    if (c == ' ')
        ...
}

But if you are really looking for all whitespace, then C has a function (actually it's often a macro) for that:

#include 
...

void foo (const char *s)
{
    char c;
    ...
    if (isspace(c))
        ...
}

You can read about isspace here

If you really want to catch all non-printing characters, the function to use is isprint from the same library. This deals with all of the characters below 0x20 (the ASCII code for a space) and above 0x7E (0x7f is the code for DEL, and everything above that is an extension).

In raw code this is equivalent to:

if (c < ' ' || c >= 0x7f)
    // Deal with non-printing characters.