wcschr

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< clrm; | stringlrm; | wide
Defined in header <wchar.h>
wchar_t* wcschr( const wchar_t* str, wchar_t ch );
(since C95)

Finds the first occurrence of the wide character ch in the wide string pointed to by str.

Parameters

str - pointer to the null-terminated wide string to be analyzed
ch - wide character to search for

Return value

Pointer to the found character in str, or NULL if no such character is found.

Example

#include <wchar.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>

int main(void)
{
    wchar_t arr[] = L" кошка";
    wchar_t *cat = wcschr(arr, L'');
    wchar_t *dog = wcschr(arr, L'');

    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    if(cat)
        printf("The character  found at position%td\n", cat-arr);
    else
        puts("The character  not found");

    if(dog)
        printf("The character  found at position%td\n", dog-arr);
    else
        puts("The character  not found");
}

Output:

The character  found at position 2
The character  not found

References

  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.29.4.5.1 The wcschr function (p: 435)
  • C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
  • 7.24.4.5.1 The wcschr function (p: 381)

See also

finds the last occurrence of a wide character in a wide string
(function)
finds the first location of any wide character in one wide string, in another wide string
(function)