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Char.IsWhiteSpace Method (String, Int32)

.NET Framework 4.5

Indicates whether the character at the specified position in a specified string is categorized as white space.

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public static bool IsWhiteSpace(
	string s,
	int index
)

Parameters

s: Type: System.String
A string.

index: Type: System.Int32
The position of the character to evaluate in s.

Return Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if the character at position index in s is white space; otherwise, false.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	s is null.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	index is less than zero or greater than the last position in s.

Remarks

Character positions in a string are indexed starting from zero.

White space characters are the following Unicode characters:

Members of the SpaceSeparator category, which includes the characters SPACE (U+0020), OGHAM SPACE MARK (U+1680), MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR (U+180E), EN QUAD (U+2000), EM QUAD (U+2001), EN SPACE (U+2002), EM SPACE (U+2003), THREE-PER-EM SPACE (U+2004), FOUR-PER-EM SPACE (U+2005), SIX-PER-EM SPACE (U+2006), FIGURE SPACE (U+2007), PUNCTUATION SPACE (U+2008), THIN SPACE (U+2009), HAIR SPACE (U+200A), NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (U+202F), MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE (U+205F), and IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE (U+3000).
Members of the LineSeparator category, which consists solely of the LINE SEPARATOR character (U+2028).
Members of the ParagraphSeparator category, which consists solely of the PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR character (U+2029).
The characters CHARACTER TABULATION (U+0009), LINE FEED (U+000A), LINE TABULATION (U+000B), FORM FEED (U+000C), CARRIAGE RETURN (U+000D), NEXT LINE (U+0085), and NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0).

Examples

The following code example demonstrates IsWhiteSpace.

C++

using System;

public class IsWhiteSpaceSample {
	public static void Main() {
		string str = "black matter"; 

		Console.WriteLine(Char.IsWhiteSpace('A'));		// Output: "False"
		Console.WriteLine(Char.IsWhiteSpace(str, 5));	// Output: "True"
	}
}

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Portable Class Library

Supported in: Portable Class Library

.NET for Windows Store apps

Supported in: Windows 8

Platforms

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

Char Structure

IsWhiteSpace Overload

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