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FGETWS(3P) POSIX Programmer's ManualFGETWS(3P)This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
fgetws — get a wide-character string from a stream
#include <stdio.h> #include <wchar.h> wchar_t *fgetws(wchar_t *restrictws, intn, FILE *restrictstream);
The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard. Thefgetws() function shall read characters from thestream, convert these to the corresponding wide-character codes, place them in thewchar_tarray pointed to byws, untiln-1 characters are read, or a <newline> is read, converted, and transferred tows, or an end-of-file condition is encountered. The wide-character string,ws, shall then be terminated with a null wide-character code. If an error occurs, the resulting value of the file position indicator for the stream is unspecified. Thefgetws() function may mark the last data access timestamp of the file associated withstream for update. The last data access timestamp shall be marked for update by the first successful execution offgetwc(),fgetws(),fwscanf(),getwc(),getwchar(),vfwscanf(),vwscanf(), orwscanf() usingstream that returns data not supplied by a prior call toungetwc().
Upon successful completion,fgetws() shall returnws. If the end- of-file indicator for the stream is set, or if the stream is at end-of-file, the end-of-file indicator for the stream shall be set andfgetws() shall return a null pointer. If a read error occurs, the error indicator for the stream shall be set,fgetws() shall return a null pointer, and shall seterrno to indicate the error.
Refer tofgetwc(3p).The following sections are informative.
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Section 2.5,Standard I/O Streams,fopen(3p),fread(3p) The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017,stdio.h(0p),wchar.h(0p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online athttp://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, seehttps://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .IEEE/The Open Group 2017FGETWS(3P)Pages that refer to this page:wchar.h(0p)
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