WCPNCPY(3POSIX)

💖 WCPNCPY 💖

okay bestie, quick vibe check before we dive in: this is a page from the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. so like, don't come for me if Linux does its own thing, k? 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

wcpncpy — copy a fixed-size wide-character string, returning a pointer to its end

like… it copies the string AND tells you where it ends? multitasking queen 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wcpncpy(wchar_t restrict *ws1, const wchar_t *restrict ws2,
    size_t n);

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so the actual deets? Refer to wcsncpy(). that's it. that's the whole description. she's mysterious, she's lowkey an icon for it 💅

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

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 .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

fr fr, if the standard and this page ever beef, the standard wins. no cap. 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie, short and sweet, main character energy only ✨ this little love letter came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it lives its life as WCPNCPY(3POSIX). mwah, go forth and copy those wide characters 💖🎀