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CharPrev

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

This function returns a pointer to the preceding character in a string.

Syntax

LPTSTR CharPrev(
  LPCTSTR lpszStart,
  LPCTSTR lpszCurrent
);

Parameters

  • lpszStart
    [in] Pointer to the beginning of the null-terminated string.
  • lpszCurrent
    [in] Pointer to a character in a null-terminated string.

Return Value

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, indicates success.

Requirements

Header winbase.h
Library Coreloc.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.01 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also

Reference

String Functions
CharNext

Other Resources

Programming with Unicode and NLS