ungetwc - push back a wide character onto a FILE stream
Standard C library (libc
, -lc
)
#include <wchar.h>
wint_t ungetwc(wint_t wc, FILE *stream);
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.
The ungetwc() function returns wc
when
successful, or WEOF upon failure.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
ungetwc() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe |
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
The behavior of ungetwc() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
fgetwc(3)