WCSTOK(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 WCSTOK(3)

NAME

       wcstok - split wide-character string into tokens

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wchar.h>

       wchar_t *wcstok(wchar_t *wcs, const wchar_t *delim, wchar_t **ptr);

DESCRIPTION

       The  wcstok function is the wide-character equivalent of the strtok function, with an added argument to make it multithread-safe. It can be
       used to split a wide-character string wcs into tokens, where a token is defined as a substring  not  containing	any  wide-characters  from
       delim.

       The  search  starts  at	wcs,  if  wcs  is not NULL, or at *ptr, if wcs is NULL. First, any delimiter wide-characters are skipped, i.e. the
       pointer is advanced beyond any wide-characters which occur in delim.  If the end of  the  wide-character  string  is  now  reached,  wcstok
       returns	NULL, to indicate that no tokens were found, and stores an appropriate value in *ptr, so that subsequent calls to wcstok will con-
       tinue to return NULL. Otherwise, the wcstok function recognizes the beginning of a token and returns a pointer  to  it,	but  before  doing
       that,  it  zero-terminates the token by replacing the next wide-character which occurs in delim with a L'' character, and it updates *ptr
       so that subsequent calls will continue searching after the end of recognized token.

RETURN VALUE

       The wcstok function returns a pointer to the next token, or NULL if no further token was found.

NOTES

       The original wcs wide-character string is destructively modified during the operation.

EXAMPLE

       The following code loops over the tokens contained in a wide-character string.

       wchar_t *wcs = ...;
       wchar_t *token;
       wchar_t *state;
       for (token = wcstok(wcs, " 	
", &state);
	    token != NULL;
	    token = wcstok(NULL, " 	
", &state)) {
	 ...
       }

CONFORMING TO

       ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98

SEE ALSO

       strtok(3), wcschr(3)

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								    1999-07-25								 WCSTOK(3)