wcsxfrm(3)						     Library Functions Manual							wcsxfrm(3)

NAME

       wcsxfrm - Transforms wide-character strings for collation in the current locale

LIBRARY

       Standard C Library (libc)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wchar.h>

       size_t wcsxfrm(	    wchar_t *ws1,      const wchar_t *ws2,	size_t n);

STANDARDS

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

       wcsxfrm(): XSH5.0

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

PARAMETERS

       Contains  a pointer to the destination wide-character string.  Contains a pointer to the source wide-character string.  Specifies the maxi-
       mum number of wide-character codes to place into the array specified by ws1.

DESCRIPTION

       The wcsxfrm() function is used to transform the wide-character string specified by the ws2 parameter into a string of wide-character  codes
       based  on the collation values of the wide characters in the current setting of the LC_COLLATE locale category. No more than n wide charac-
       ters (including the terminating null wide character) are copied into the array specified by the ws1 parameter.  When two transformed  wide-
       character strings are obtained and the transformed strings are compared using wcscmp(), the result is the same as that obtained by a direct
       call to wcscoll() on the two original wide-character strings.

       The application can call wcsxfrm() with ws1 as a null pointer to determine the number of wide characters to allocate for the ws1 parameter.
       For example, the following expression calculates the size of ws1:

       1 + wcsxfrm(NULL, ws2, 0) As shown in this example, the n parameter must be 0 (zero) when ws1 is a null pointer.

       When operating on overlapping strings, the behavior of the wcsxfrm() function is unreliable.

NOTES

       If  an  application  does  multiple  comparisons  based on the current locale's collation values and uses the same set of text strings, the
       wcsxfrm() transformation function in conjunction with the wcscmp() function may be more efficient than the  wcscoll()  collation  function.
       This  is  because  the  string  is transformed based on the locale tables only once.  However, the transformation function must convert all
       characters in the string for each level of a multilevel collation. In comparison, the collation function stops comparing characters at  the
       first inequality. These tradeoffs make the most efficient method for a specific application dependent on the number of repeated comparisons
       of strings within the set, the number of collation levels for the current locale, and the values of the strings within the set.

RETURN VALUES

       If the ws1 parameter is a wide-character null pointer, the wcsxfrm() function returns the number of wide-character elements (not  including
       the  terminating null wide character) required to store the transformed wide-character string. If the count specified by the n parameter is
       sufficient to hold the transformed string in the ws1 parameter (including the terminating null wide character) the return value is  set	to
       the  actual number of wide-character elements placed in the ws1 parameter, not including the terminating null wide character. If the return
       value is equal to or greater than the value specified by the n parameter, the contents of the array pointed to by  the  ws1  parameter  are
       indeterminate.

       On error, the wcsxfrm() function returns (size_t)-1 and sets errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       If  any the following conditions occur, the wcsxfrm() function sets errno to the corresponding value: The ws2 parameter contains wide-char-
       acter codes outside the domain of the collating sequence defined by the current locale.	[Tru64 UNIX]  There was insufficient memory avail-
       able to allocate temporary storage for this operation.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Functions: setlocale(3), string(3), wcscmp(3), wcscoll(3)

       Standards: standards(5) delim off

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