NAME

wcslen – determine the length of a wide-character string  

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

size_t wcslen(const wchar_t *s);
 

DESCRIPTION

The wcslen() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strlen(3) function. It determines the length of the wide-character string pointed to by s, excluding the terminating null wide character (L’\0′).  

RETURN VALUE

The wcslen() function returns the number of wide characters in s.  

ATTRIBUTES

 

Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

The wcslen() function is thread-safe.  

CONFORMING TO

C99.  

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