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- ISCSYMF(3) Library Functions ISCSYMF(3)
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- NAME
- iscsymf - tell whether given character could be found as the
- first character of a C symbol
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- SYNOPSIS
- #include <edlib.h>
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- int iscsymf(c)
- char c;
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- DESCRIPTION
- Iscsymf tells whether it is possible that the given character
- could appear as the first character of a C symbol. A C symbol
- might be the the name of a variable, structure, reserved word
- or a functions. Not all characters that are valid in a C symbol
- may be the first character of an identifier in most implementations
- of C. In most versions, the characters allowed as the first
- character are the upper and lower case alphbetic characters and
- the underscore (_).
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- AUTHOR
- Edwin Hoogerbeets 01/08/88
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- SEE ALSO
- iscsym(3)
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- BUGS
- This function depends on the C compiler used, and thus the
- characters that are valid as the intial character in a C symbol
- may be different, even on the same machine.
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