Linux manual pages Section 3: Subroutines  

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.

CONFORMING TO

C99.

SEE ALSO

strlen(3)

COLOPHON

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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