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WCSCOLL(3P)               POSIX Programmer's Manual              WCSCOLL(3P)

PROLOG         top

       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux
       implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
       the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME         top

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

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <wchar.h>
       int wcscoll(const wchar_t *ws1, const wchar_t *ws2);
       int wcscoll_l(const wchar_t *ws1, const wchar_t *ws2,
           locale_t locale);

DESCRIPTION         top

       For wcscoll(): 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.
       The wcscoll() and wcscoll_l() 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, or the locale represented by locale,
       respectively.
       The wcscoll() and wcscoll_l() 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() or wcscoll_l().  If errno is non-zero
       on return, an error has occurred.
       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.

RETURN VALUE         top

       Upon successful completion, wcscoll() and wcscoll_l() 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, or to the
       locale represented by locale, respectively. On error, wcscoll() and
       wcscoll_l() shall set errno, but no return value is reserved to
       indicate an error.

ERRORS         top

       These functions may fail if:
       EINVAL The ws1 or ws2 arguments contain wide-character codes outside
              the domain of the collating sequence.
       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES         top

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

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

RATIONALE         top

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       None.

SEE ALSO         top

       wcscmp(3p), wcsxfrm(3p)
       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, wchar.h(0p)

COPYRIGHT         top

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
       Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
       applied.) 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.unix.org/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 .
IEEE/The Open Group                 2013                         WCSCOLL(3P)

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