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std::wcslen

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< cpp‎ | string‎ | wide
Defined in header <cwchar>
std::size_t wcslen( const wchar_t* str );

Returns the length of a wide string, that is the number of non-null wide characters that precede the terminating null wide character.

The behavior is undefined if there is no null character in the wide character array pointed to by str.

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[edit] Parameters

str - pointer to the null-terminated wide string to be examined

[edit] Return value

The length of the null-terminated wide string str.

[edit] Example

#include <iostream>
#include <cwchar>
#include <clocale>
 
int main()
{
    const wchar_t* str = L"爆ぜろリアル!弾けろシナプス!パニッシュメントディス、ワールド!";
 
    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    std::wcout.imbue(std::locale("en_US.utf8"));
    std::wcout << "The length of \"" << str << "\" is " << std::wcslen(str) << '\n';
}

Output:

The length of "爆ぜろリアル!弾けろシナプス!パニッシュメントディス、ワールド!" is 32

[edit] See also

returns the length of a given string
(function) [edit]
returns the number of bytes in the next multibyte character
(function) [edit]
C documentation for wcslen