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 \'\\t\' and newlines are \'\\n\', but I wa

Answer 1

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

' '      space 
'\t'     horizontal tab 
'\n'     newline
'\v'     vertical tab 
'\f'     feed 
'\r'     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 ' '.