Trivial C question: iterating through chars

Walter B. Ligon III walt at clemson.edu
Fri Apr 20 10:08:24 PDT 2001


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Chris,

I'm not sure if you are more interested in ASCII or in C programming.

My suggestion is you try "man ascii" which will give you a complete
listing.  otherwise, printable ascii runs from 32 to 126 decimal:

char c;

for (c = 32; c < 127; c++)
	printf("Ascii %d is %c\n", c, c);

or you could try:

int i;

for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
	if (isprint(i))
		printf("Ascii %d is %c\n", i, i);
}

which will give you all sorts of stuff that isn't ascii, but is technically
"printable" - I only tested to 10000, but there are probably more printables
above that. I suppose you could go to MAXINT.

Walt
-- 
Dr. Walter B. Ligon III
Associate Professor
ECE Department
Clemson University






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