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Function `std.ascii.isPrintable`


						
				bool isPrintable
				(
				

				  dchar c
				

				) pure nothrow @nogc @safe;

Parameters

Name	Description
c	The character to test.

Returns

Whether or not c is a printable character - including the space character.

Example

assert( isPrintable(' '));  // whitespace is printable
assert( isPrintable('1'));
assert( isPrintable('a'));
assert( isPrintable('#'));
assert(!isPrintable('\0')); // control characters are not printable

// N.B.: Printable non-ASCII Unicode characters are not recognized.
assert(!isPrintable('á'));

Authors

Walter Bright and Jonathan M Davis

License

Boost License 1.0.