.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible .\" .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" References consulted: .\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual .\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ .\" OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html .\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 .\" .TH UNGETWC 3 "September 19, 1999" "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME ungetwc \- push back a wide character onto a FILE stream .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .sp .BI "wint_t ungetwc (wint_t " wc ", FILE *" stream "); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBungetwc\fP function is the wide-character equivalent of the \fBungetc\fP function. It pushes back a wide character onto \fIstream\fP and returns it. .PP If \fIwc\fP is WEOF, it returns WEOF. If \fIwc\fP is an invalid wide character, it sets \fBerrno\fP to \fBEILSEQ\fP and returns WEOF. .PP If \fIwc\fP is a valid wide character, it is pushed back onto the stream and thus becomes available for future wide character read operations. The file-position indicator is decremented by one or more. The end-of-file indicator is cleared. The backing storage of the file is not affected. .PP Note: \fIwc\fP need not be the last wide character read from the stream; it can be any other valid wide character. .PP If the implementation supports multiple push-back operations in a row, the pushed-back wide characters will be read in reverse order; however, only one level of push-back is guaranteed. .SH "RETURN VALUE" The \fBungetwc\fP function returns \fIwc\fP when successful, or WEOF upon failure. .SH "CONFORMING TO" ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98 .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR fgetwc (3) .SH NOTES The behaviour of \fBungetwc\fP depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.