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Synopsis:
    #include <ctype.h>
    int islower( int c );
    #include <wchar.h>
    int iswlower( wint_t c );

Description:
    The islower function tests for any lowercase letter 'a' through 'z'.

    The iswlower function is similar to islower except that it accepts a
    wide-character argument.

Returns:
    The islower function returns a non-zero value when argument is a
    lowercase letter.  The iswlower function returns a non-zero value when
    the argument is a wide character that corresponds to a lowercase letter,
    or if it is one of an implementation-defined set of wide characters for
    which none of  iswcntrl,  iswdigit,  iswpunct, or  iswspace is true.
     Otherwise, zero is returned.

Example:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <ctype.h>

    char chars[] = {
        'A',
        'a',
        'z',
        'Z'
    };

    #define SIZE sizeof( chars ) / sizeof( char )

    void main()
      {
        int   i;

        for( i = 0; i < SIZE; i++ ) {
          printf( "Char %c is %sa lowercase character\n",
                chars[i],
                ( islower( chars[i] ) ) ? "" : "not " );
        }
      }

    produces the following:

    Char A is not a lowercase character
    Char a is a lowercase character
    Char z is a lowercase character
    Char Z is not a lowercase character

Classification:
    islower is ANSI, iswlower is ANSI

Systems:
     islower - All, Netware

    iswlower - All, Netware

See Also:
    isalnum, isalpha, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, isleadbyte, isprint,
    ispunct, isspace, isupper, iswctype, isxdigit, tolower, toupper