ungetwc - push back a wide character onto a FILE stream
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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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│ ungetwc() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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Description
The ungetwc() function is the wide-character equivalent of the ungetc(3) function. It pushes back a wide
character onto stream and returns it.
If wc is WEOF, it returns WEOF. If wc is an invalid wide character, it sets errno to EILSEQ and returns
WEOF.
If wc is a valid wide character, it is pushed back onto the stream and thus becomes available for future
wide-character read operations. The file-position indicator is decremented by one or more. The end-of-
file indicator is cleared. The backing storage of the file is not affected.
Note: wc need not be the last wide-character read from the stream; it can be any other valid wide
character.
If the implementation supports multiple push-back operations in a row, the pushed-back wide characters
will be read in reverse order; however, only one level of push-back is guaranteed.
History
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
ungetwc - push back a wide character onto a FILE stream
Notes
The behavior of ungetwc() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
Return Value
The ungetwc() function returns wc when successful, or WEOF upon failure.
See Also
fgetwc(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 ungetwc(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<wchar.h>wint_tungetwc(wint_twc,FILE*stream);