WCSSTR(3POSIX)

💖 WCSSTR(3POSIX) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the POSIX Programmer's Manual — this lil page is WCSSTR(3POSIX), and it's giving "wide-character substring hunting" energy. 🦋

🌸 PROLOG

Real talk first: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so go peek at the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or honestly the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈

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✨ NAME

wcsstr — find a wide-character substring 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

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

💅 DESCRIPTION

The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.

So here's the vibe: wcsstr() shall locate the first occurrence in the wide-character string pointed to by ws1 of the sequence of wide characters (excluding the terminating null wide character) in the wide-character string pointed to by ws2. It's literally find-and-seek but for wide chars. 🔍

⭐ RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, wcsstr() shall return a pointer to the located wide-character string 🫶 — or a null pointer if the wide-character string is not found. 😭

And if ws2 points to a wide-character string with zero length, the function shall return ws1. (yes, it just hands you back what you gave it, iconic behavior honestly)

💀 ERRORS

No errors are defined.

The following sections are informative.

🍓 EXAMPLES

None.

🌈 APPLICATION USAGE

None.

🧚 RATIONALE

None.

🔥 FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

👑 SEE ALSO

• wcschr()
• The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <wchar.h>

💜 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 .

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IEEE/The Open Group · 2017 · WCSSTR(3POSIX) — and that's the whole page bestie, ty for reading, mwah 💋✨🎀