NAME
fgetws - read a wide-character string from a FILE stream
SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h>
I wchar_t *fgetws(wchar_t * ws , int n , FILE * stream );
DESCRIPTION
The
R fgetws ()
function is the wide-character equivalent
of the
fgets(3)
function.
It reads a string of at most
n-1 wide characters into the
wide-character array pointed to by
ws, and adds a terminating L'\0'
character.
It stops reading wide characters after it has encountered and
stored a newline wide character.
It also stops when end of stream is reached.
The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least n wide
characters at ws.
RETURN VALUE
The
R fgetws ()
function, if successful, returns ws.
If end of stream
was already reached or if an error occurred, it returns NULL.
CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
The behavior of
R fgetws ()
depends on the
LC_CTYPE
category of the
current locale.
In the absence of additional information passed to the
fopen(3)
call, it is
reasonable to expect that
R fgetws ()
will actually read a multibyte string
from the stream and then convert it to a wide-character string.
This function is unreliable,
because it does not permit to deal properly with
null wide characters that may be present in the input.
SEE ALSO