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wcstok(3) Library Functions Manual wcstok(3)
wcstok - split wide-character string into tokens
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#include <wchar.h>
wchar_t *wcstok(wchar_t *restrict wcs, const wchar_t *restrict delim,
wchar_t **restrict ptr);
The wcstok() function is the wide-character equivalent of the
strtok(3) 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, that
is, 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 continue 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
null wide character (L'\0'), and it updates *ptr so that
subsequent calls will continue searching after the end of
recognized token.
The wcstok() function returns a pointer to the next token, or NULL
if no further token was found.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
┌──────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ wcstok() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
The original wcs wide-character string is destructively modified
during the operation.
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, L" \t\n", &state);
token != NULL;
token = wcstok(NULL, L" \t\n", &state)) {
...
}
strtok(3), wcschr(3)
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