getwchar

 

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File access fopenfopen_s (C11) freopenfreopen_s (C11) fwide (C95) setbuf setvbuf fclose fflush Direct input/output fread fwrite Unformatted input/output fgetc fgets fputc fputs getchar getsgets_s (until C11)(C11) putchar puts ungetc fgetwcgetwc (C95)(C95) fgetws (C95) fputwcputwc (C95)(C95) fputws (C95) getwchar (C95) putwchar (C95) ungetwc (C95) Formatted input scanffscanfsscanfscanf_sfscanf_ssscanf_s (C11)(C11)(C11) wscanffwscanfswscanfwscanf_sfwscanf_sswscanf_s (C95)(C95)(C95)(C11)(C11)(C11) vscanfvfscanfvsscanfvscanf_svfscanf_svsscanf_s (C99)(C99)(C99)(C11)(C11)(C11) vwscanfvfwscanfvswscanfvwscanf_svfwscanf_svswscanf_s (C99)(C99)(C99)(C11)(C11)(C11)	Formatted output printffprintfsprintfsnprintfprintf_sfprintf_ssprintf_ssnprintf_s (C99)(C11)(C11)(C11)(C11) wprintffwprintfswprintfwprintf_sfwprintf_sswprintf_ssnwprintf_s (C95)(C95)(C95)(C11)(C11)(C11)(C11) vprintfvfprintfvsprintfvsnprintfvprintf_svfprintf_svsprintf_svsnprintf_s (C99)(C11)(C11)(C11)(C11) vwprintfvfwprintfvswprintfvwprintf_svfwprintf_svswprintf_svsnwprintf_s (C95)(C95)(C95)(C11)(C11)(C11)(C11) File positioning ftell fgetpos fseek fsetpos rewind Error handling clearerr feof ferror perror Operations on files remove rename tmpfiletmpfile_s (C11) tmpnamtmpnam_s (C11)

 

Defined in header <wchar.h>
wint_t getwchar(void);		(since C95)

Reads the next wide character from stdin.

Parameters

(none)

Return value

the obtained wide character or WEOF if an error has occurred or the end of file reached

References

• C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.29.3.7 The getwchar function (p: 424)

• C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.24.3.7 The getwchar function (p: 369-370)

See also

getchar	reads a character from stdin (function)
fgetwcgetwc (C95)	gets a wide character from a file stream (function)