wcswidth — determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide-character string
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include <wchar.h>
int
wcswidth( |
const wchar_t *s, |
size_t n) ; |
The wcswidth
() function
returns the number of columns needed to represent the
wide-character string pointed to by s
, but at most n
wide characters. If a
nonprintable wide character occurs among these characters,
−1 is returned.
The wcswidth
() function
returns the number of column positions for the wide-character
string s
, truncated
to at most length n
.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
wcswidth () |
Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
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