WCSLEN(3)                           Linux Programmer's Manual                           WCSLEN(3)



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  termi‐
       nating 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.

SEE ALSO
       strlen(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.74 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the
       project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of  this  page,  can  be
       found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU                                         2013-11-21                                  WCSLEN(3)