wmemchr

Header: <wchar.h>

  1. Locates the first occurrence of wide character ch in the initial count wide characters of the wide character array or integer array of compatible type, pointed to by ptr.

# Declarations

wchar_t *wmemchr( const wchar_t *ptr, wchar_t ch, size_t count );

(since C95)

/*QWchar_t*/ *wmemchr( /*Qwchar_t*/ *ptr, wchar_t ch, size_t count );

(since C23)

# Parameters

# Return value

Pointer to the location of the wide character, or a null pointer if no such character is found.

# Example

#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    wchar_t str[] = L"诺不轻信,故人不负我\0诺不轻许,故我不负人。";
    size_t sz = sizeof str / sizeof *str;
 
    wchar_t target = L'许';
    wchar_t* result = wmemchr(str, target, sz);
 
    if (result)
    {
        setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
        printf("Found '%lc' at position %td\n",target, result - str);
    }
}

# See also