PathIsUNCW function (shlwapi.h)

Determines if a path string is a valid Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path, as opposed to a path based on a drive letter.

Syntax

BOOL PathIsUNCW(
  [in] LPCWSTR pszPath
);

Parameters

[in] pszPath

Type: LPCTSTR

A pointer to a null-terminated string of maximum length MAX_PATH that contains the path to validate.

Return value

Type: BOOL

Returns TRUE if the string is a valid UNC path; otherwise, FALSE.

Remarks

Note

The shlwapi.h header defines PathIsUNC 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.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Target Platform Windows
Header shlwapi.h
Library Shlwapi.lib
DLL Shlwapi.dll (version 4.71 or later)

See also

PathIsUNCEx