wcschr

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< c ‎ | string ‎ | wide
Defined in header <wchar.h>
wchar_t * wcschr ( const wchar_t * str, wchar_t ch ) ;
(1) (since C95)
/*QWchar_t*/ * wcschr ( /*QWchar_t*/ * str, wchar_t ch ) ;
(2) (since C23)
1) Finds the first occurrence of the wide character ch in the wide string pointed to by str .
2) Type-generic function equivalent to (1) . Let T be an unqualified wide character object type.
  • If str is of type const T * , the return type is const wchar_t * .
  • Otherwise, if str is of type T * , the return type is wchar_t * .
  • Otherwise, the behavior is undefined.
If a macro definition of each of these generic functions is suppressed to access an actual function (e.g. if ( wcschr ) or a function pointer is used), the actual function declaration (1) becomes visible.

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 a null pointer if no such character is found.

Example

#include <wchar.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    wchar_t arr[] = L"白猫 黒猫 кошки";
    wchar_t *cat = wcschr(arr, L'猫');
    wchar_t *dog = wcschr(arr, L'犬');
 
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    if(cat)
        printf("The character 猫 found at position %td\n", cat-arr);
    else
        puts("The character 猫 not found");
 
    if(dog)
        printf("The character 犬 found at position %td\n", dog-arr);
    else
        puts("The character 犬 not found");
}

Output:

The character 猫 found at position 1
The character 犬 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

(C95)
finds the last occurrence of a wide character in a wide string
(function)
(C95)
finds the first location of any wide character in one wide string, in another wide string
(function)