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16 .TH WCSSPN 3 1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
18 wcsspn \- advance in a wide-character string, skipping
19 any of a set of wide characters
24 .BI "size_t wcsspn(const wchar_t *" wcs ", const wchar_t *" accept );
29 function is the wide-character equivalent of the
32 It determines the length of the longest initial segment of \fIwcs\fP
33 which consists entirely of wide-characters listed in \fIaccept\fP.
35 words, it searches for the first occurrence in the wide-character string
36 \fIwcs\fP of a wide-character not contained in the wide-character string
41 function returns the number of
42 wide characters in the longest
43 initial segment of \fIwcs\fP which consists entirely of wide-characters listed
45 In other words, it returns the position of the first
46 occurrence in the wide-character string \fIwcs\fP of a wide-character not
47 contained in the wide-character string \fIaccept\fP, or \fIwcslen(wcs)\fP