wmemcpy(3)						     Library Functions Manual							wmemcpy(3)

NAME

       wmemcpy, wmemchr, wmemcmp, wmemmove, wmemset - Perform memory operations on wide-character arrays

LIBRARY

       Standard C Library (libc)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wchar.h>

       wchar_t *wmemcpy(
	       wchar_t *wstr1,
	       const wchar_t *wstrs2,
	       size_t n);

       wchar_t *wmemchr(
	       const wchar_t *wstr,
	       wchar_t wc,
	       size_t n);

       int wmemcmp(
	       const wchar_t *wstr1,
	       const wchar_t *wstr2,
	       size_t n);

       wchar_t *wmemmove(
	       wchar_t *wstr1,
	       const wchar_t *wstr2,
	       size_t n);

       wchar_t *wmemset(
	       wchar_t *wstr,
	       wchar_t wc,
	       size_t n);

STANDARDS

       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:

       wmemcpy(), wmemchr(), wmemcmp(), wmemmove(), wmemset():	XSH5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

PARAMETERS

       Points  to the location of a wide-character string.  Points to the location of a destination wide-character string.  Points to the location
       of a source wide-character string.  Specifies a wide character for which to search (except for the wmemset() case, in which wc is the  tar-
       get of the copy).  Specifies the number of wide characters to search.

DESCRIPTION

       The  wmemcpy(),	wmemchr(), wmemcmp(), wmemset(), and wmemmove() functions operate on wide-character strings in memory areas. A memory area
       is a group of contiguous wide characters bound by a count and not terminated by a null wide character. These memory functions do not  check
       for  overflow  of  the receiving memory area. They are also not affected by locale; therefore, they do not give special treatment to a null
       wide character or wide-character values that do not correspond to valid multibyte characters.  Unless  stated  otherwise,  these  functions
       order  two  wide  characters  the same way as two integers of the integral type wchar_t.  All of these memory functions are declared in the
       wchar.h header file.

       The wmemcpy() function copies n wide characters from the string pointed to by the wstr2 parameter into the location pointed to by the wstr1
       parameter.  When copying overlapping strings, the behavior of this function is unreliable.

       The  wmemchr()  function  sequentially searches the wide-character string at the location pointed to by the wstr parameter until one of the
       following occurs: The wide character specified by the wc parameter has been found.  The number of wide characters specified by the n param-
       eter have been searched at location wstr.

       If wc is found, the wmemchr() function returns a pointer to that wide character in the string pointed to by wstr.  If wc is not found after
       searching n wide characters, the function returns a null pointer.

       The wmemcmp() function compares the first n wide characters of the string pointed to by the wstr1 parameter with the first n  wide  charac-
       ters of the string pointed to by the wstr2 parameter.

       This  function returns one of the following values: Less than zero if the value of the object in wstr1 is less than the value of the object
       in wstr2 Zero if the value of object in wstr1 is equal to the value of the object in wstr2 Greater than zero if the value of the object	in
       wstr1 is greater than the value of the object in wstr2

       The wmemset() function first copies the value of the wide character specified by the wc parameter into each of the first n locations of the
       string pointed to by the wstr parameter and then returns the value of wstr.

       The wmemmove() function copies n wide characters from the string at the location pointed to by the wstr2 parameter to  the  string  at  the
       location  pointed to by the wstr1 parameter.  Copying takes place as though the n wide characters from string wstr2 are first copied into a
       temporary array having n wide characters that does not overlap either of the strings pointed to by wstr1 or wstr2.  Then, n number of  wide
       characters  from  the temporary array are copied to the string pointed to by wstr1. Consequently, this operation is nondestructive and pro-
       ceeds from left to right. The wmemmove() function returns the value of wstr1.

       When the value of n is zero, all these functions either return zero or copy zero wide characters, depending on whether the purpose  of  the
       function is to compare or copy wide characters.

RETURN VALUES

       The  wmemchr() function returns a pointer to the location of wc in wstr or a null pointer if wc is not found in the first n wide characters
       of wstr.

       The wmemcmp() function returns a value greater than, equal to, or less than 0 (zero), according to whether the first n wide  characters	of
       the  string  pointed  to by the wstr1 parameter have a value greater than, equal to, or less than the first n wide characters in the string
       pointed to by the wstr2 parameter.

       The wmemcpy() and wmemmove() functions return the wide-character string pointed to by the wstr1 parameter.

       The wmemset() function returns the wide-character string pointed to by the wstr parameter.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Functions: bcopy(3), memccpy(3), string(3), swab(3), wcscat(3), wcsspn(3), wcsstr(3), wcswcs(3) delim off

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