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C program to print all printable characters without using the library function

Here, we are going to learn how to print all printable characters without using the library function in C language?
Submitted by Nidhi, on August 25, 2021

Problem statement

Here, we will print all printable characters are available in C without using the library function.

Program

The source code to print all printable characters without using the library function is given below. The given program is compiled and executed using GCC compile on UBUNTU 18.04 OS successfully.

// C program to print all printable characters
// without using library function

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

int isPunctuation(char ch)
{
    if (ch == '!' || ch == '\"' || ch == '#' || ch == '$' || ch == '%' || ch == '&' || ch == '\'' || ch == '(' || ch == ')' || ch == '*' || ch == '+' || ch == ',' || ch == '-' || ch == '.' || ch == '/' || ch == ':' || ch == ';' || ch == '<' || ch == '=' || ch == '>' || ch == '?' || ch == '@' || ch == '[' || ch == '\\' || ch == ']' || ch == '^' || ch == '`' || ch == '{' || ch == '|' || ch == '}' || ch == '~')
        return 1;

    return 0;
}

int isAlphaNumeric(char ch)
{
    if ((ch >= '0' & ch <= '9') || (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') || (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z'))
        return 1;

    return 0;
}

int isPrintable(char ch)
{
    if (isAlphaNumeric(ch) || isPunctuation(ch))
        return 1;
    return 0;
}

int main()
{
    int cnt;
    printf("Printable characters are: \n");

    for (cnt = 0; cnt <= 127; cnt++)
        if (isPrintable(cnt) != 0)
            printf("%c ", cnt);

    printf("\n");

    return 0;
}

Output

Printable characters are: 
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 
[ \ ] ^ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u 
v w x y z { | } ~

Explanation

Here, we created four functions isPunctuation(), isAlphanumeric(), isPrintable() and main(). The isPrintable() function is used to check the given character is printable or not.

In the main() function, we printed all printable characters available in C language without using the library function.