islower in C Programming

The islower() function is one of the Standard Library Function available in C programming language, which is used to check the given character is a lowercase alphabet or not. In this article we will show you, How to use islower in C Programming language with example. Before we get into the example, the basic syntax of the islower in C language is as shown below.

C islower Function syntax

Below function will accept single character as the parameter, and check whether the given character is in lowercase or not.

islower(char)

islower in C Programming Example

The islower method is used to find whether the given character is a lowercase character or not. This C program allows the user to enter any character, and check whether the character is between a to z using the islower function.

//Example for islower in C Programming
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main()
{
    char ch;
    printf("Please Enter Any Lowercase Character: \n");
    scanf("%c", &ch);

    if(islower(ch))
    {
      printf("\n You have entered a Lowercase Character");         
    }
    else
    {
      printf("\n %c is not a Lowercase Alphabet", ch);
      printf("\n I request you to enter Valid Lowercase Character");	
    }
}

OUTPUT

Let me enter the Uppercase letter

ANALYSIS

First we declared a character variable called ch

char ch;

Following statement will ask the user to enter any character. And then we are using the scanf to assign the user entered character to ch variable

printf("Please Enter Any Lowercase Character: \n");
scanf("%c", &ch);

In this next line, we added the If Statement to check whether the character is between ‘a’ and ‘z’ or not using islower function. If the condition is True then the following statement will be printed

printf("\n You have entered a Lowercase Character");

If the above condition is FALSE then the given character is not a lowercase Alphabet. So, it will print below statements

printf("\n %c is not a Lowercase Alphabet", ch);
printf("\n I request you to enter Valid Lowercase Character");

Above code will definitely check whether the given character is a lowercase character or not, but what if, we enter the numeric value

TIP: Please refer C Program to check whether the Character is Lowercase or Not article to understand, How to check whether the character is lowercase or not without using the islower function.

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