NAME

std::wmemset - std::wmemset

Synopsis

Defined in header <cwchar>
wchar_t* wmemset( wchar_t* dest, wchar_t ch, std::size_t count );

Copies the wide character ch into each of the first count wide characters of the
wide character array pointed to by dest.

If overflow occurs, the behavior is undefined.

If count is zero, the function does nothing.

Parameters

dest - pointer to the wide character array to fill
ch - fill wide character
count - number of wide characters to fill

Return value

Returns a copy of dest

Notes

This function is not locale-sensitive and pays no attention to the values of the
wchar_t objects it writes: nulls as well as invalid wide characters are written too.

Example

// Run this code

#include <iostream>
#include <cwchar>
#include <clocale>
#include <locale>

int main()
{
wchar_t ar[4] = {L'1', L'2', L'3', L'4'};
std::wmemset(ar, L'\U0001f34c', 2); // replaces [12] with the 🍌 bananas
std::wmemset(ar+2, L'蕉', 2); // replaces [34] with the 蕉 bananas

std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
std::wcout.imbue(std::locale("en_US.utf8"));
std::wcout << std::wstring(ar, 4) << '\n';
}

Possible output:

🍌🍌蕉蕉