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Name

wcsstr - locate a substring in a wide-character string

Library

Standard C library ( libc ", " -lc )

Synopsis

#include <wchar.h> 
wchar_t *wcsstr(const wchar_t *" haystack ", const wchar_t * needle );

Description

The wcsstr() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strstr(3) function. It searches for the first occurrence of the wide-character string needle (without its terminating null wide character (L'\e0')) as a substring in the wide-character string haystack.

Return Value

The wcsstr() function returns a pointer to the first occurrence of needle in haystack. It returns NULL if needle does not occur as a substring in haystack.

Note the special case: If needle is the empty wide-character string, the return value is always haystack itself.

Attributes

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InterfaceAttributeValue
T}Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

See Also

  1. strstr(3),
  2. wcschr(3)