NAME¶

std::fgetws - std::fgetws

Synopsis¶

Defined in header <cwchar>
wchar_t* fgetws( wchar_t* str, int count, std::FILE* stream );

Reads at most count - 1 wide characters from the given file stream and stores them
in str. The produced wide string is always null-terminated. Parsing stops if
end-of-file occurs or a newline wide character is found, in which case str will
contain that wide newline character.

Parameters¶

str - wide string to read the characters to
count - the length of str
stream - file stream to read the data from

Return value¶

str on success, a null pointer on an error.

Example¶

// Run this code

#include <array>
#include <clocale>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cwchar>
#include <cwctype>
#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>
#include <span>
#include <string>

void dump(std::span<const wchar_t> sp, std::size_t width = 14)
{
for (wchar_t wc : sp)
std::wcout << (std::iswprint(wc) ? wc : L'.');
std::wcout << std::wstring(width > sp.size() ? width - sp.size() : 1, L' ')
<< std::hex << std::uppercase << std::setfill(L'0');
for (wchar_t wc : sp)
std::wcout << std::setw(sizeof wc) << static_cast<unsigned>(wc) << ' ';
std::wcout << '\n';
}

int main()
{
// Create temp file that contains wide characters
std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
std::FILE* tmpf = std::tmpfile();

for (const wchar_t* text : {
L"Tétraèdre" L"\n",
L"Cube" L"\n",
L"Octaèdre" L"\n",
L"Icosaèdre" L"\n",
L"Dodécaèdre" L"\n"
})
if (int rc = std::fputws(text, tmpf); rc == EOF)
{
std::perror("fputws()"); // POSIX requires that errno is set
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}

std::rewind(tmpf);

std::array<wchar_t, 12> buf;
while (std::fgetws(buf.data(), buf.size(), tmpf) != nullptr)
dump(std::span(buf.data(), buf.size()));

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Possible output:¶

Tétraèdre... 0054 00E9 0074 0072 0061 00E8 0064 0072 0065 000A 0000 0000
Cube..dre... 0043 0075 0062 0065 000A 0000 0064 0072 0065 000A 0000 0000
Octaèdre.... 004F 0063 0074 0061 00E8 0064 0072 0065 000A 0000 0000 0000
Icosaèdre... 0049 0063 006F 0073 0061 00E8 0064 0072 0065 000A 0000 0000
Dodécaèdre.. 0044 006F 0064 00E9 0063 0061 00E8 0064 0072 0065 000A 0000

See also¶

wscanf reads formatted wide character input from stdin, a file stream or a buffer
fwscanf (function)
swscanf
fgetwc gets a wide character from a file stream
getwc (function)
fputws writes a wide string to a file stream
(function)
C documentation for
fgetws