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NAME

       ungetwc — push wide-character code back into the input stream

SYNOPSIS

       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <wchar.h>

       wint_t ungetwc(wint_t wc, FILE *stream);

DESCRIPTION

       The  functionality  described  on  this  reference  page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict
       between the requirements described  here  and  the  ISO C  standard  is  unintentional.  This  volume  of
       POSIX.1‐2008 defers to the ISO C standard.

       The  ungetwc() function shall push the character corresponding to the wide-character code specified by wc
       back onto the input stream pointed to by  stream.   The  pushed-back  characters  shall  be  returned  by
       subsequent  reads  on  that  stream  in the reverse order of their pushing. A successful intervening call
       (with the stream pointed to by stream) to a file-positioning function (fseek(), fseeko(),  fsetpos(),  or
       rewind())  or  fflush()  shall  discard  any  pushed-back characters for the stream. The external storage
       corresponding to the stream is unchanged.

       At least one character of push-back shall be provided. If ungetwc() is called too many times on the  same
       stream without an intervening read or file-positioning operation on that stream, the operation may fail.

       If  the value of wc equals that of the macro WEOF, the operation shall fail and the input stream shall be
       left unchanged.

       A successful call to ungetwc() shall clear the end-of-file indicator for the stream.  The  value  of  the
       file-position  indicator  for the stream after all pushed-back characters have been read, or discarded by
       calling fseek(), fseeko(), fsetpos(), or rewind() (but not fflush()), shall be the same as it was  before
       the  characters  were  pushed  back.  The file-position indicator is decremented (by one or more) by each
       successful call to ungetwc(); if its value was 0 before a call, its value is unspecified after the call.

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, ungetwc() shall return the wide-character code corresponding to  the  pushed-
       back character. Otherwise, it shall return WEOF.

ERRORS

       The ungetwc() function may fail if:

       EILSEQ An invalid character sequence is detected, or a wide-character code does not correspond to a valid
              character.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       None.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       Section 2.5, Standard I/O Streams, fseek(), fsetpos(), read(), rewind(), setbuf()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <stdio.h>, <wchar.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition,
       Standard  for  Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,  Inc
       and  The  Open Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event
       of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard,  the  original
       IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
       http://www.unix.org/online.html .

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