NAME

wcscmp – compare two wide-character strings  

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

int wcscmp(const wchar_t *s1, const wchar_t *s2);
 

DESCRIPTION

The wcscmp() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strcmp(3) function. It compares the wide-character string pointed to by s1 and the wide-character string pointed to by s2.  

RETURN VALUE

The wcscmp() function returns zero if the wide-character strings at s1 and s2 are equal. It returns an integer greater than zero if at the first differing position i, the corresponding wide-character s1[i] is greater than s2[i]. It returns an integer less than zero if at the first differing position i, the corresponding wide-character s1[i] is less than s2[i].  

ATTRIBUTES

 

Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

The wcscmp() function is thread-safe.  

CONFORMING TO

C99.  

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