MBSTOWCS(3) Linux Programmer's Manual MBSTOWCS(3)

NAME

mbstowcs - convert a multibyte string to a wide character string.

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h> size_t mbstowcs(wchar_t *pwcs, const char *s, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION

The mbstowcs() function converts a sequence of multibyte characters from the array s into a sequence of wide char- acters and stores up to n wide characters in the array pwcs.

RETURN VALUE

mbstowcs() returns the number of wide characters stored or -1 if s contains an invalid multibyte character.

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

mblen, mbtowc, wcstombs, wctomb,


































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