wcscspn - search a wide-character string for any of a set of wide characters
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ wcscspn() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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Description
The wcscspn() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strcspn(3) function. It determines the
length of the longest initial segment of wcs which consists entirely of wide-characters not listed in
reject. In other words, it searches for the first occurrence in the wide-character string wcs of any of
the characters in the wide-character string reject.
History
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
wcscspn - search a wide-character string for any of a set of wide characters
Return Value
The wcscspn() function returns the number of wide characters in the longest initial segment of wcs which
consists entirely of wide-characters not listed in reject. In other words, it returns the position of
the first occurrence in the wide-character string wcs of any of the characters in the wide-character
string reject, or wcslen(wcs) if there is none.
See Also
strcspn(3), wcspbrk(3), wcsspn(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 wcscspn(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<wchar.h>size_twcscspn(constwchar_t*wcs,constwchar_t*reject);