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

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

RETURN VALUE

wcstombs() returns the number of bytes stored in s or -1 if s contains an invalid wide character.

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

mblen, mbtowc, mbstowcs, wctomb,


































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