The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition
Copyright © 2001-2013 The IEEE and The Open Group

NAME

wcscoll, wcscoll_l - wide-character string comparison using collating information

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

int wcscoll(const wchar_t *
ws1, const wchar_t *ws2);

[CX] [Option Start] int wcscoll_l(const wchar_t *ws1, const wchar_t *ws2,
       locale_t
locale); [Option End]

DESCRIPTION

For wcscoll(): [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 wcscoll() [CX] [Option Start]  and wcscoll_l() [Option End]  functions shall compare the wide-character string pointed to by ws1 to the wide-character string pointed to by ws2, both interpreted as appropriate to the LC_COLLATE category of the current locale, [CX] [Option Start]  or the locale represented by locale, [Option End]  respectively.

The wcscoll() [CX] [Option Start]  and wcscoll_l() [Option End]  functions shall not change the setting of errno if successful.

An application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to 0 before calling wcscoll() [CX] [Option Start]  or wcscoll_l(). [Option End]  If errno is non-zero on return, an error has occurred.

[CX] [Option Start] The behavior is undefined if the locale argument to wcscoll_l() is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not a valid locale object handle. [Option End]

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, wcscoll() [CX] [Option Start]  and wcscoll_l() [Option End]  shall return an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0, according to whether the wide-character string pointed to by ws1 is greater than, equal to, or less than the wide-character string pointed to by ws2, when both are interpreted as appropriate to the current locale, [CX] [Option Start]  or to the locale represented by locale, [Option End]  respectively. On error, wcscoll() [CX] [Option Start]  and wcscoll_l() [Option End]  shall set errno, but no return value is reserved to indicate an error.

ERRORS

These functions may fail if:

[EINVAL]
[CX] [Option Start] The ws1 or ws2 arguments contain wide-character codes outside the domain of the collating sequence. [Option End]

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

The wcsxfrm() and wcscmp() functions should be used for sorting large lists.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

wcscmp, wcsxfrm

XBD <wchar.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

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

Issue 5

Moved from ENHANCED I18N to BASE and the [ENOSYS] error is removed.

The DESCRIPTION is updated to indicate that errno is not changed if the function is successful.

Issue 7

The wcscoll_l() function is added from The Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 4.

POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 1, XSH/TC1-2008/0719 [302], XSH/TC1-2008/0720 [283], and XSH/TC1-2008/0721 [283] are applied.

End of informative text.

 

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