April 17, 2008 TOASCII 3

### NAME

toascii - convert a byte to 7-bit ASCII

### LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

### SYNOPSIS

```int` toascii(```int c`)

### DESCRIPTION

The toascii(``) function returns the argument with all but the lower 7 bits cleared.

### RETURN VALUES

The toascii(``) function always returns a valid ASCII character. The result is a non-negative integer in the range from 0 to 127, inclusive.

### SEE ALSO

ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3), stdio(3), tolower(3), toupper(3), ascii(7)

### STANDARDS

The toascii(``) function conforms to X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4 (``XPG4'') .