std::ctype_base(3)

✨ NAME ✨

std::ctype_base — the base class for ctype, bestie 💖 it's giving founding mother of the whole character-classification fam, and we're reading its manual page from Library Functions Manual (yes that's the manual name, we keep it, periodt).

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <locale>

Inherited by std::mask< _CharT >, std::__ctype_abstract_base< wchar_t >, std::__ctype_abstract_base< _CharT >, and std::ctype< char >.

okay so it's not out here living its own life — it's the ancestor, the blueprint, the girl the whole ctype bloodline descends from 👑

🎀 Public Types 🎀

• typedef const int * __to_type — a pointer-to-const int type, aliased as __to_type, and no we don't ask questions, we just respect it 🫶
• typedef unsigned short mask — mask is literally just an unsigned short. That's the whole vibe. It's the type every single one of those classification flags below is wearing 💅

⭐ Static Public Attributes ⭐

These are the static const mask members, and each one is a little classification flag, an icon, a category, a whole personality:

• static const mask alnum — alphanumeric characters, slay
• static const mask alpha — alphabetic characters, the classic
• static const mask blank — blank characters, quiet but present
• static const mask cntrl — control characters, chaotic energy
• static const mask digit — digits, 0-9 main character moment
• static const mask graph — graphical characters
• static const mask lower — lowercase characters, cute lowercase bestie
• static const mask print — printable characters
• static const mask punct — punctuation characters, the punctuation is the point ✨
• static const mask space — space characters, taking up room literally
• static const mask upper — uppercase characters, LOUD and PROUD
• static const mask xdigit — hexadecimal digits, the hex girlies ate

twelve flags. twelve. every single one of them accounted for, no skipping, no summarising, iykyk 😭💖

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💜 Detailed Description 💜

Base class for ctype.

that's it. that's the whole detailed description. it's short but it said what it said and it meant it. a whole base class, one sentence, icon behaviour honestly 🌈

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🦋 Author 🦋

Generated automatically by Doxygen for libstdc++ from the source code.

not a human author bestie — this page was spat out by Doxygen automatically, for libstdc++, straight from the source code. no ghostwriter, just machinery ✨

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and that's the page!! thanks for reading the whole thing with me 🫶 this one came from the libstdc++ manual, section 3 (std::ctype_base(3), if you're keeping track), so go forth, classify some characters, and remember: you're the base class of your own life 💅🎀💖