wmemchr(3)

✨ NAME ✨

wmemchr — okay so we're searching for a wide character inside a wide-character array 💅

and yeah hi bestie, this one lives in the Library Functions Manual, section 3 (wmemchr(3)), which is where all your C library function girlies hang out 🫶

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

Standard C library (libc, link it with -lc) — the OGs, the blueprint, no cap 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wmemchr(size_t n;
                 const wchar_t s[n], wchar_t c, size_t n);

like that's literally it, that's the whole vibe ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: wmemchr() is the wide-character equivalent of memchr(3). Same energy, wider characters 💫

What it does: it searches the n wide characters starting at s for the first occurrence of the wide character c. That's it. That's the whole plot. She finds your girl c, or she doesn't 🎯

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🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

wmemchr() hands you back a pointer to the first occurrence of c among the n wide characters starting at s 🫶

but if c is nowhere in that little lineup? You get NULL. Not found. Girl's not there. 😭

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💅 ATTRIBUTES 💅

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, go peek at attributes(7) (she explains everything, iykyk) 📖

• Interface: wmemchr()
• Attribute: Thread safety
• Value: MT-Safe 🔥

translation: multi-threaded? she's safe, bestie. go off 👑

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⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

C11, POSIX.1-2008. Iconic standardized behaviour, periodt 💖

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

POSIX.1-2001, C99. Yeah she's been around, she's a legacy queen 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• memchr(3) — the narrow-character sister, same vibe but byte-sized
• wcschr(3) — the string-search cousin, also slaying ✨

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 💜 this was brought to you by Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08 — mwah, go search some wide chars, you've got this 🦋🎀💅