Re: using the interfaces in ctype.h

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
> Just as sadly Joerg's advice to read about the value in the CAVEATS section 
> doesn't help, at least not on NetBSD-4.0 or earlier.

The ctype(3) man page had a much better CAVEATS section than that of the
individual to* and is* functions.  I have now expanded it even further,
and added references to it in all the to* and is* man pages.

> Neither the SUSv2 docs online, nor any variant of the NetBSD manual
> pages, contain any good examples.

The NetBSD ctype(3) man page has an example, but it may not be good.

--apb (Alan Barrett)