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NF:winuser.CharPrevW |
CharPrevW function (winuser.h) |
Retrieves a pointer to the preceding character in a string. This function can handle strings consisting of either single- or multi-byte characters. (Unicode) |
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menurc\charprev.htm |
menurc |
VS|winui|~\winui\windowsuserinterface\resources\strings\stringreference\stringfunctions\charprev.htm |
12/05/2018 |
CharPrev, CharPrev function [Menus and Other Resources], CharPrevA, CharPrevW, _win32_CharPrev, _win32_charprev_cpp, menurc.charprev, winui._win32_charprev, winuser/CharPrev, winuser/CharPrevA, winuser/CharPrevW |
winuser.h |
Windows.h |
Windows |
Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only] |
Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only] |
CharPrevW (Unicode) and CharPrevA (ANSI) |
User32.lib |
User32.dll |
Windows |
19H1 |
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Retrieves a pointer to the preceding character in a string. This function can handle strings consisting of either single- or multi-byte characters.
Type: LPCTSTR
The beginning of the string.
Type: LPCTSTR
A character in a null-terminated string.
Type: LPTSTR
The return value is a pointer to the preceding character in the string, or to the first character in the string if the lpszCurrent parameter equals the lpszStart parameter.
When called as an ANSI function, CharPrev uses the system default code-page, whereas CharPrevExA specifies a code-page to use.
This function works with default "user" expectations of characters when dealing with diacritics. For example: A string that contains U+0061 U+030a "LATIN SMALL LETTER A" + COMBINING RING ABOVE" — which looks like "å", will advance two code points, not one. A string that contains U+0061 U+0301 U+0302 U+0303 U+0304 — which looks like "a´^~¯", will advance five code points, not one, and so on.
Note
The winuser.h header defines CharPrev as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.
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