WCPCPY(3P)

✨ PROLOG ✨

okay bestie, first things first: this is the WCPCPY(3P) page, and it's part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. 💖 So it's giving official POSIX energy, not just some random Tumblr post.

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💖 NAME 💖

wcpcpy — copy a wide-character string, returning a pointer to its end. Periodt. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

she's serving function signature, no cap:

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wcpcpy(wchar_t *restrict ws1, const wchar_t *restrict ws2);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to wcscpy(). That's literally the whole description, bestie. The lore lives over in wcscpy(). Go read that one. 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Legal bestie moment, but make it cute. The text says:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html.

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This page is WCPCPY(3P) from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017. Stay slay, read your man pages, and hydrate 💅💖