wcsspn - get length of a prefix wide-character substring
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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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│ wcsspn() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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Description
The wcsspn() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strspn(3) function. It determines the
length of the longest initial segment of wcs which consists entirely of wide-characters listed in accept.
In other words, it searches for the first occurrence in the wide-character string wcs of a wide-character
not contained in the wide-character string accept.
History
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
wcsspn - get length of a prefix wide-character substring
Return Value
The wcsspn() function returns the number of wide characters in the longest initial segment of wcs which
consists entirely of wide-characters listed in accept. In other words, it returns the position of the
first occurrence in the wide-character string wcs of a wide-character not contained in the wide-character
string accept, or wcslen(wcs) if there is none.
See Also
strspn(3), wcscspn(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 wcsspn(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<wchar.h>size_twcsspn(constwchar_t*wcs,constwchar_t*accept);