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The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008
Copyright © 2001-2008 The IEEE and The Open Group

NAME

wcscspn - get the length of a complementary wide substring

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

size_t wcscspn(const wchar_t *ws1, const wchar_t *ws2);

DESCRIPTION

[CX] [Option Start] 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.1-2008 defers to the ISO C standard. [Option End]

The wcscspn() function shall compute the length (in wide characters) of the maximum initial segment of the wide-character string pointed to by ws1 which consists entirely of wide-character codes not from the wide-character string pointed to by ws2.

RETURN VALUE

The wcscspn() function shall return the length of the initial substring of ws1; no return value is reserved to indicate an error.

ERRORS

No errors are defined.

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

wcsspn

XBD <wchar.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 4. Derived from the MSE working draft.

Issue 5

The RETURN VALUE section is updated to indicate that wcscspn() returns the length of ws1, rather than ws1 itself.

End of informative text.

 

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