fgetws

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(C95)(C95)
fgetws
(C95)
(C95)(C95)
(C95)
(C95)
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Defined in header <wchar.h>
wchar_t *fgetws( wchar_t *str, int count, FILE *stream );
(since C95)
(until C99)
wchar_t *fgetws( wchar_t * restrict str, int count, FILE * restrict stream );
(since C99)

Reads at most count - 1 wide characters from the given file stream and stores them in str. The produced wide string is always null-terminated. Parsing stops if end-of-file occurs or a newline wide character is found, in which case str will contain that wide newline character.

Parameters

str - wide string to read the characters to
count - the length of str
stream - file stream to read the data from

Return value

str on success, NULL on an error

References

  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.29.3.2 The fgetws function (p: 422)
  • C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
  • 7.24.3.2 The fgetws function (p: 367-368)

See also

reads formatted wide character input from stdin, a file stream or a buffer
(function)
gets a wide character from a file stream
(function)
(C95)
writes a wide string to a file stream
(function)
read from a stream into a automatically resized buffer until delimiter/end of line
(function)