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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(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  de-
       lim.

       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()  re-
       turns NULL, to indicate that no tokens were found, and stores an appro-
       priate 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 null wide character (L'\0'),  and  it  up-
       dates  *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.

ATTRIBUTES
       For  an  explanation  of  the  terms  used  in  this  section,  see at-
       tributes(7).

       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface | Attribute     | Value   |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |wcstok()  | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.

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, " \t\n", &state);
           token != NULL;
           token = wcstok(NULL, " \t\n", &state)) {
           ...
       }

SEE ALSO
       strtok(3), wcschr(3)

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GNU                               2019-03-06                         WCSTOK(3)
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