Guardian Native C Library Calls Reference Manual (G06.28+, H06.05+)

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wcsxfrm(3) Guardian Native C Library Calls Reference Manual

NAME

wcsxfrm - Transforms wide character strings for collation in the current locale

LIBRARY

G-series native Guardian processes: $SYSTEM.SYSnn.ZCRTLSRL

G-series native OSS processes: /G/system/sysnn/zcrtlsrl

H-series native Guardian processes: $SYSTEM.ZDLLnnn.ZCRTLDLL

H-series OSS processes: /G/system/zdllnnn/zcrtldll

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

size_t wcsxfrm(

wchar_t *ws1,

const wchar_t *ws2,

size_t n);

PARAMETERS

ws1 Contains a pointer to the destination wide-character string.

ws2 Contains a pointer to the source wide-character string.

n Speciﬁes the maximum number of wide-character codes to place into the array

speciﬁed by ws1.

DESCRIPTION

The wcsxfrm( ) function is used to transform the wide-character string speciﬁed by the ws2

parameter into a string of wide-character codes based on the collation values of the wide charac-

ters in the current locale setting as speciﬁed by the LC_COLLATE category. No more than the

number of wide characters speciﬁed by the n parameter are copied into the array speciﬁed by the

ws1 parameter. This transformation is such that when two such transformed wide-character

strings are obtained and the transformed strings are compared using the wcscmp() function, the

result obtained would be same as would be obtained by a direct call to the wcscoll( ) function on

the two original wide-character strings.

When operating on overlapping strings, the behavior of this function is unreliable.

NOTES

If you are doing multiple comparisons based on the current locale’s collation values using the

same set of text strings, the wcsxfrm() transformation function in conjunction with the

wcscmp() function may be more efﬁcient than using the wcscoll() collation function because the

string is transformed based on the locale tables only once. However, the transformation function

must convert all characters in the string for each level of a multi-level collation. In comparison,

the collation function stops comparing characters at the ﬁrst inequality. These efﬁciency

tradeoffs make the most efﬁcient method for a speciﬁc application dependent on the number of

repeated comparisons of strings within the set, the number of collation levels for the current

locale, and the values of the strings within the set.

RETURN VALUES

If the ws1 parameter is a wide-character null pointer, the wcsxfrm() function returns the number

of wide-character elements (not including the terminating null wide character) required to store

the transformed wide-character string. If the count speciﬁed by the n parameter is sufﬁcient to

hold the transformed string in the ws1 parameter (including the terminating null wide character)

the return value is set to the actual number of wide-character elements placed in the ws1 parame-

ter, not including the terminating null wide character. If the return value is equal to or greater

than the value speciﬁed by the n parameter, the contents of the array pointed to by the ws1

parameter are indeterminate. This occurs whenever the value speciﬁed by the n parameter is too

small to hold the entire transformed string.

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