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### 6.26 `wcstok`—get next token from a string

Synopsis

         #include <wchar.h>
         wchar_t *wcstok(wchar_t *source, const wchar_t *delimiters,
             wchar_t **lasts)

Description
The `wcstok` function is the wide-character equivalent of the `strtok_r` function (which in turn is the same as the `strtok` function with an added argument to make it thread-safe).

The `wcstok` function is used to isolate (one at a time) sequential tokens in a null-terminated wide-character string, `*`source. A token is defined as a substring not containing any wide-characters from `*`delimiters.

The first time that `wcstok` is called, `*`source should be specified with the wide-character string to be searched, and `*`lasts–but not `lasts`, which must be non-NULL–may be random; subsequent calls, wishing to obtain further tokens from the same string, should pass a null pointer for `*`source instead but must supply `*`lasts unchanged from the last call. The separator wide-character string, `*`delimiters, must be supplied each time and may change between calls. A pointer to placeholder `*`lasts must be supplied by the caller, and is set each time as needed to save the state by `wcstok`. Every call to `wcstok` with `*`source == `NULL` must pass the value of `*`lasts as last set by `wcstok`.

The `wcstok` function returns a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string, after replacing the separator wide-character itself with a null wide-character. When no more tokens remain, a null pointer is returned.

Returns
`wcstok` returns a pointer to the first wide character of a token, or `NULL` if there is no token.

Portability
`wcstok` is C99 and POSIX.1-2001.

`wcstok` requires no supporting OS subroutines.