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30.Dd $Mdocdate: January 13 2015 $
31.Dt FGETWLN 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm fgetwln
35.Nd get a line of wide characters from a stream
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In stdio.h
38.In wchar.h
39.Ft wchar_t *
40.Fn fgetwln "FILE * restrict stream" "size_t * restrict len"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Fn fgetwln
44function returns a pointer to the next line from the stream referenced by
45.Fa stream .
46This line is
47.Em not
48a standard wide-character string as it does not end with a terminating
49null wide character.
50The length of the line, including the final newline,
51is stored in the memory location to which
52.Fa len
53points and is guaranteed to be greater than 0 upon successful completion.
54(Note, however, that if the last line in the stream does not end in a newline,
55the returned text will not contain a newline.)
56.Sh RETURN VALUES
57Upon successful completion a pointer is returned;
58this pointer becomes invalid after the next I/O operation on
59.Fa stream
60(whether successful or not)
61or as soon as the stream is closed.
62Otherwise,
63.Dv NULL
64is returned.
65.Pp
66The
67.Fn fgetwln
68function does not distinguish between end-of-file and error; the routines
69.Xr feof 3
70and
71.Xr ferror 3
72must be used
73to determine which occurred.
74If an error occurs, the global variable
75.Va errno
76is set to indicate the error.
77The end-of-file condition is remembered, even on a terminal, and all
78subsequent attempts to read will return
79.Dv NULL
80until the condition is
81cleared with
82.Xr clearerr 3 .
83.Pp
84The text to which the returned pointer points may be modified,
85provided that no changes are made beyond the returned size.
86These changes are lost as soon as the pointer becomes invalid.
87.Sh ERRORS
88.Bl -tag -width [EBADF]
89.It Bq Er EBADF
90The argument
91.Fa stream
92is not a stream open for reading.
93.El
94.Pp
95The
96.Fn fgetwln
97function may also fail and set
98.Va errno
99for any of the errors specified for the routines
100.Xr malloc 3 ,
101.Xr mbrtowc 3 ,
102.Xr read 2 ,
103.Xr stat 2 ,
104or
105.Xr realloc 3 .
106.Sh SEE ALSO
107.Xr ferror 3 ,
108.Xr fgetln 3 ,
109.Xr fgetws 3 ,
110.Xr fopen 3
111.Sh HISTORY
112The
113.Fn fgetwln
114function first appeared in
115.Ox 5.7 .
116