function
<cwchar>
wcschr
const wchar_t* wcschr (const wchar_t* ws, wchar_t wc); wchar_t* wcschr ( wchar_t* ws, wchar_t wc);
Locate first occurrence of character in wide string
Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the wide character wc in the C wide string ws.
The terminating null wide character is considered part of the string. Therefore, it can also be located in order to retrieve a pointer to the end of a wide string.
This is the wide character equivalent of strchr (<cstring>).
Parameters
- ws
- C wide string.
- wc
- Wide character to be located.
Return Value
A pointer to the first occurrence of wc in ws.
If wc is not found, the function returns a null pointer.
Portability
In C, this function is only declared as:
wchar_t * wcschr ( const wchar_t *, wchar_t );
instead of the two overloaded versions provided in C++.
Example
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/* wcschr example */
#include <wchar.h>
int main ()
{
wchar_t wcs[] = L"This is a sample wide string";
wchar_t * pwc;
wprintf (L"Looking for the 's' character in \"%ls\"...\n",wcs);
pwc=wcschr(wcs,L's');
while (pwc!=NULL)
{
wprintf (L"found at %d\n",pwc-wcs+1);
pwc=wcschr(pwc+1,L's');
}
return 0;
}
Output:
Looking for the 's' character in "This is a sample string"...
found at 4
found at 7
found at 11
found at 23
See also
- strchr
- Locate first occurrence of character in string (function)
- wcsrchr
- Locate last occurrence of character in wide string (function)
- wmemchr
- Locate character in block of wide characters (function)
- wcspbrk
- Locate characters in wide string (function)