NAME |LIBRARY |SYNOPSIS |DESCRIPTION |RETURN VALUE |ATTRIBUTES |STANDARDS |HISTORY |SEE ALSO |COLOPHON | |
wcsstr(3) Library Functions Manualwcsstr(3)wcsstr - locate a substring in a wide-character string
Standard C library (libc,-lc)
#include <wchar.h>wchar_t *wcsstr(const wchar_t *haystack, const wchar_t *needle);
Thewcsstr() function is the wide-character equivalent of thestrstr(3) function. It searches for the first occurrence of the wide-character stringneedle (without its terminating null wide character (L'\0')) as a substring in the wide-character stringhaystack.
Thewcsstr() function returns a pointer to the first occurrence ofneedle inhaystack. It returns NULL ifneedle does not occur as a substring inhaystack. Note the special case: Ifneedle is the empty wide-character string, the return value is alwayshaystack itself.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, seeattributes(7). ┌──────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface│Attribute│Value│ ├──────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │wcsstr() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
strstr(3),wcschr(3)
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