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 '' and newlines are ' ', but I want to be able to check for just a regular normal space (from the space-bar) inside of an if statement.

Does anybody know what is the character for this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30033582/what-is-the-symbol-for-whitespace-in-c

Answer 1

There is no particular symbol for whitespace. It is actually a set of some characters which are:

' '      space 
''     horizontal tab 
'
'     newline
'v'     vertical tab 
'f'     feed 
'
'     carriage return    

Use isspace standard library function from ctype.h if you want to check for any of these white-spaces.

For just a space, use ' '.