std::wcscpy

Header: <cwchar>

Copies the wide string pointed to by src (including the terminating null wide character) to wide character array pointed to by dest.

# Declarations

wchar_t* wcscpy( wchar_t* dest, const wchar_t* src );

# Parameters

# Return value

dest

# Example

#include <clocale>
#include <cwchar>
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
 
int main()
{
    const wchar_t* src = L"犬 means dog";
//  src[0] = L'狗'; // can't modify string literal
    auto dst = std::make_unique<wchar_t[]>(std::wcslen(src) + 1); // +1 for the null
    std::wcscpy(dst.get(), src);
    dst[0] = L'狗';
    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    std::wcout.imbue(std::locale(""));
    std::wcout << src << '\n' << dst.get() << '\n';
}

# See also