wcschr(3)

wcschr3

Search a wide character in a wide-character string

Usage

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wcschr(const wchar_t *wcs, wchar_t wc);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The wcschr() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strchr(3) function. It searches the first occurrence of wc in the wide-character string pointed to by wcs.

Return value

The wcschr() function returns a pointer to the first occurrence of wc in the wide-character string pointed to by wcs, or NULL if wc does not occur in the string.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
wcschr()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.