WCSTOK(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 WCSTOK(3)

NAME

     wcstok -- split wide-character string into tokens

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <wchar.h>

     wchar_t *
     wcstok(wchar_t * restrict str, const wchar_t * restrict sep, wchar_t ** restrict last);

DESCRIPTION

     The wcstok() function is used to isolate sequential tokens in a null-terminated wide character string, str.  These tokens are separated in
     the string by at least one of the characters in sep.  The first time that wcstok() is called, str should be specified; subsequent calls,
     wishing to obtain further tokens from the same string, should pass a null pointer instead.  The separator string, sep, must be supplied each
     time, and may change between calls.  The context pointer last must be provided on each call.

     The wcstok() function is the wide character counterpart of the strtok_r() function.

RETURN VALUES

     The wcstok() function returns a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string, after replacing the token itself with a null
     wide character (L'').  When no more tokens remain, a null pointer is returned.

EXAMPLES

     The following code fragment splits a wide character string on ASCII space, tab and newline characters and writes the tokens to standard out-
     put:

	   const wchar_t *seps = L" 	
";
	   wchar_t *last, *tok, text[] = L" 
one	two		three  
";

	   for (tok = wcstok(text, seps, &last); tok != NULL;
	       tok = wcstok(NULL, seps, &last))
		   wprintf(L"%ls
", tok);

COMPATIBILITY

     Some early implementations of wcstok() omit the context pointer argument, last, and maintain state across calls in a static variable like
     strtok() does.

SEE ALSO

     strtok(3), wcschr(3), wcscspn(3), wcspbrk(3), wcsrchr(3), wcsspn(3)

STANDARDS

     The wcstok() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'').

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								  October 3, 2002							       BSD