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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)
GNU
1999-07-25 WCSTOK(3)
Related Man Pages
wcstok(3) - redhat
wcstok(3) - freebsd
wcstok(3) - xfree86
wcstok(3) - x11r4
wcstok(3) - v7
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