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

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       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

       wcstok — split a wide-character string into tokens

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <wchar.h>
       wchar_t *wcstok(wchar_t *restrict ws1, const wchar_t *restrict ws2,
           wchar_t **restrict ptr);

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.
       A sequence of calls to wcstok() shall break the wide-character string
       pointed to by ws1 into a sequence of tokens, each of which shall be
       delimited by a wide-character code from the wide-character string
       pointed to by ws2.  The ptr argument points to a caller-provided
       wchar_t pointer into which the wcstok() function shall store
       information necessary for it to continue scanning the same wide-
       character string.
       The first call in the sequence has ws1 as its first argument, and is
       followed by calls with a null pointer as their first argument. The
       separator string pointed to by ws2 may be different from call to
       call.
       The first call in the sequence shall search the wide-character string
       pointed to by ws1 for the first wide-character code that is not
       contained in the current separator string pointed to by ws2.  If no
       such wide-character code is found, then there are no tokens in the
       wide-character string pointed to by ws1 and wcstok() shall return a
       null pointer. If such a wide-character code is found, it shall be the
       start of the first token.
       The wcstok() function shall then search from there for a wide-
       character code that is contained in the current separator string. If
       no such wide-character code is found, the current token extends to
       the end of the wide-character string pointed to by ws1, and
       subsequent searches for a token shall return a null pointer. If such
       a wide-character code is found, it shall be overwritten by a null
       wide character, which terminates the current token. The wcstok()
       function shall save a pointer to the following wide-character code,
       from which the next search for a token shall start.
       Each subsequent call, with a null pointer as the value of the first
       argument, shall start searching from the saved pointer and behave as
       described above.
       The implementation shall behave as if no function calls wcstok().

RETURN VALUE         top

       Upon successful completion, the wcstok() function shall return a
       pointer to the first wide-character code of a token. Otherwise, if
       there is no token, wcstok() shall return a null pointer.

ERRORS         top

       No errors are defined.
       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES         top

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

       None.

RATIONALE         top

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       None.

SEE ALSO         top

       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                          WCSTOK(3P)

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