SDL_wcsnlen(3)

SDL_wcsnlen3

This works exactly like wcsnlen() but doesn't require access to a c runtime.

Usage

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

size_t SDL_wcsnlen(const wchar_t *wstr, size_t maxlen);

Header file

Defined in SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h

Overview

Counts up to a maximum of maxlen wchar_t values in wstr , excluding the null terminator.

Like SDL_strnlen
only counts bytes and not codepoints in a UTF-8 string, this counts wchar_t values in a string, even if the string's encoding is of variable width, like UTF-16.

Also be aware that wchar_t is different sizes on different platforms (4 bytes on Linux, 2 on Windows, etc).

Also, maxlen is a count of wide characters, not bytes!

Function parameters

wstr

The null-terminated wide string to read. Must not be NULL.

maxlen

The maximum amount of wide characters to count.

Return value

Returns the length (in wide characters, excluding the null terminator) of wstr but never more than maxlen .

Thread safety

It is safe to call this function from any thread.

Availability

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.

From libsdl3-doc 3.2.10+ds-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.