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38.Dd $Mdocdate: February 2 2021 $
39.Dt UNGETWC 3
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm ungetwc
43.Nd un-get wide character from input stream
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In stdio.h
46.In wchar.h
47.Ft wint_t
48.Fn ungetwc "wint_t wc" "FILE *stream"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Fn ungetwc
52function pushes the wide character
53.Fa wc
54(converted to a wchar_t)
55back onto the input stream pointed to by
56.Fa stream .
57The pushed-backed wide characters will be returned by subsequent reads on the
58stream (in reverse order).
59A successful intervening call, using the same stream, to one of the file
60positioning functions
61.Xr fseek 3 ,
62.Xr fsetpos 3 ,
63or
64.Xr rewind 3
65will discard the pushed back wide characters.
66.Pp
67One wide character of push-back is guaranteed,
68but as long as there is
69sufficient memory, an effectively infinite amount of pushback is allowed.
70.Pp
71If a character is successfully pushed back,
72the end-of-file indicator for the stream is cleared.
73.Sh RETURN VALUES
74The
75.Fn ungetwc
76function
77returns
78the wide character pushed back after the conversion, or
79.Dv WEOF
80if the operation fails.
81If the value of the argument
82.Fa c
83character equals
84.Dv WEOF ,
85the operation will fail and the stream will remain unchanged.
86.Sh SEE ALSO
87.Xr fseek 3 ,
88.Xr getwc 3 ,
89.Xr ungetc 3
90.Sh STANDARDS
91The
92.Fn ungetwc
93function conforms to
94.St -isoC-99 .
95.Sh BUGS
96The current implementation uses a fixed sized ungetwc-buffer.
97