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diff --git a/man3/wcsncmp.3 b/man3/wcsncmp.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e53bf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/wcsncmp.3 @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.TH wcsncmp 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +wcsncmp \- compare two fixed-size wide-character strings +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wchar.h> +.PP +.BI "int wcsncmp(const wchar_t " s1 [. n "], const wchar_t " s2 [. n "], \ +size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR wcsncmp () +function is the wide-character equivalent of the +.BR strncmp (3) +function. +It compares the wide-character string pointed to by +.I s1 +and the +wide-character string pointed to by +.IR s2 , +but at most +.I n +wide +characters from each string. +In each string, the comparison extends only up +to the first occurrence of a null wide character (L\[aq]\e0\[aq]), if any. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR wcsncmp () +function returns zero if the wide-character strings at +.I s1 +and +.IR s2 , +truncated to at most length +.IR n , +are equal. +It returns an integer greater than zero if at the first differing position +.I i +.RI ( i +< +.IR n ), +the corresponding wide-character +.I s1[i] +is +greater than +.IR s2[i] . +It returns an integer less than zero if at the first +differing position +.I i +.RI ( i +< +.IR n ), +the corresponding +wide-character +.I s1[i] +is less than +.IR s2[i] . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR wcsncmp () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C99. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR strncmp (3), +.BR wcsncasecmp (3) |