wcswidth - determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide-character string
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│ wcswidth() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
Description
The wcswidth() function returns the number of columns needed to represent the wide-character string
pointed to by s, but at most n wide characters. If a nonprintable wide character occurs among these
characters, -1 is returned.
History
POSIX.1-2001.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
wcswidth - determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide-character string
Notes
The behavior of wcswidth() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
Return Value
The wcswidth() function returns the number of column positions for the wide-character string s, truncated
to at most length n.
See Also
iswprint(3), wcwidth(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 wcswidth(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#define_XOPEN_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include<wchar.h>intwcswidth(constwchar_t*s,size_tn);
