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Function `std.ascii.isPunctuation`


						
				bool isPunctuation
				(
				

				  dchar c
				

				) pure nothrow @nogc @safe;

Parameters

Name	Description
c	The character to test.

Returns

Whether or not c is a punctuation character. That includes all ASCII characters which are not control characters, letters, digits, or whitespace.

Example

assert( isPunctuation('.'));
assert( isPunctuation(','));
assert( isPunctuation(':'));
assert( isPunctuation('!'));
assert( isPunctuation('#'));
assert( isPunctuation('~'));
assert( isPunctuation('+'));
assert( isPunctuation('_'));

assert(!isPunctuation('1'));
assert(!isPunctuation('a'));
assert(!isPunctuation(' '));
assert(!isPunctuation('\n'));
assert(!isPunctuation('\0'));

// N.B.: Non-ASCII Unicode punctuation characters are not recognized.
assert(!isPunctuation('\u2012')); // (U+2012 = en-dash)

Authors

Walter Bright and Jonathan M Davis

License

Boost License 1.0.