wcscspn()

Updated: April 19, 2023

Count the wide characters at the beginning of a string that aren't in a given character set

Synopsis:

#include <wchar.h>

size_t wcscspn( const wchar_t * ws1,
                const wchar_t * ws2 );

Arguments:

ws1
The wide-character string that you want to search.
ws2
The set of wide characters you want to look for.

Library:

libc

Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.

Description:

The wcscspn() function scans the string consisting entirely of wide characters pointed to by ws1 for the first occurrence of characters in the string pointed to by ws2. The terminating NUL isn't considered to be part of ws2.

Returns:

The length of the scanned segment.

Classification:

ANSI, POSIX 1003.1

Safety:  
Cancellation point No
Interrupt handler Yes
Signal handler Yes
Thread Yes