wcscspn - search a wide-character string for any of a set of wide characters
Standard C library (libc
, -lc
)
#include <wchar.h>
size_t wcscspn(const wchar_t *wcs, const wchar_t *reject);
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
.
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.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
wcscspn() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe |
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, C99.