6 Wide Character Strings (wchar.h)

This chapter describes wide-character string-handling functions and managing areas of memory containing wide characters. The corresponding declarations are in wchar.h.

• wmemchr: Find wide character in memory
• wmemcmp: Compare two wide-character memory areas
• wmemcpy: Copy wide-character memory regions
• wmemmove: Move possibly overlapping wide-character memory
• wmemset: Set an area of memory to a specified wide character
• wcscat: Concatenate wide-character strings
• wcschr: Search for wide character in string
• wcscmp: Wide-character string compare
• wcscoll: Locale-specific wide-character string compare
• wcscpy: Copy wide-character string
• wcpcpy: Copy a wide-character string returning a pointer to its end
• wcscspn: Count wide characters not in string
• wcsftime: Convert date and time to a formatted wide-character string
• wcslcat: Concatenate wide-character strings to specified length
• wcslcpy: Copy wide-character string to specified length
• wcslen: Wide-character string length
• wcsncat: Concatenate wide-character strings
• wcsncmp: Wide-character string compare
• wcsncpy: Counted copy wide-character string
• wcpncpy: Copy part of a wide-character string returning a pointer to its end
• wcsnlen: Wide-character string length with maximum limit
• wcspbrk: Find wide characters in string
• wcsrchr: Reverse search for wide character in string
• wcsspn: Find initial match in wide-character string
• wcsstr: Find wide-character string segment
• wcstok: Tokenize wide-character string
• wcswidth: Number of column positions of a wide-character string
• wcsxfrm: Locale-specific wide-character string transformation
• wcwidth: Number of column positions of a wide-character code