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-.TH WCSSPN 3 1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH WCSSPN 3 2013-11-11 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
wcsspn \- advance in a wide-character string, skipping
any of a set of wide characters
function is the wide-character equivalent of the
.BR strspn (3)
function.
-It determines the length of the longest initial segment of \fIwcs\fP
-which consists entirely of wide-characters listed in \fIaccept\fP.
+It determines the length of the longest initial segment of
+.I wcs
+which consists entirely of wide-characters listed in
+.IR accept .
In other
words, it searches for the first occurrence in the wide-character string
-\fIwcs\fP of a wide-character not contained in the wide-character string
-\fIaccept\fP.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.I wcs
+of a wide-character not contained in the wide-character string
+.IR accept .
+.SH RETURN VALUE
The
.BR wcsspn ()
function returns the number of
wide characters in the longest
-initial segment of \fIwcs\fP which consists entirely of wide-characters listed
-in \fIaccept\fP.
+initial segment of
+.I wcs
+which consists entirely of wide-characters listed
+in
+.IR accept .
In other words, it returns the position of the first
-occurrence in the wide-character string \fIwcs\fP of a wide-character not
-contained in the wide-character string \fIaccept\fP, or \fIwcslen(wcs)\fP
+occurrence in the wide-character string
+.I wcs
+of a wide-character not
+contained in the wide-character string
+.IR accept ,
+or
+.I wcslen(wcs)
if there is none.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR wcsspn ()
+function is thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
C99.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR strspn (3),
.BR wcscspn (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I 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/.