<TITLE>mbstowcs</TITLE> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc"> <hr> <pre> <h3>MBSTOWCS(3) Linux Programmer's Manual MBSTOWCS(3) </h3> <h3>NAME </h3> mbstowcs - convert a multibyte string to a wide character string. <h3>SYNOPSIS </h3> #include <stdlib.h> size_t mbstowcs(wchar_t *pwcs, const char *s, size_t n); <h3>DESCRIPTION </h3> 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. <h3>RETURN VALUE </h3> mbstowcs() returns the number of wide characters stored or -1 if s contains an invalid multibyte character. <h3>CONFORMING TO </h3> SVID 3, ISO 9899 </pre> <hr> <h3>SEE ALSO </h3><p> <a href=mblen.htm>mblen</a>, <a href=mbtowc.htm>mbtowc</a>, <a href=wcstombs.htm>wcstombs</a>, <a href=wctomb.htm>wctomb</a>, <pre> <h3>GNU March 29, 1993 1 </h3> </pre> <P> <hr> <p> <center> <table border=2 width=80%> <tr align=center> <td width=25%> <a href=../index.htm>Top</a> </td><td width=25%> <a href=../master_index.html>Master Index</a> </td><td width=25%> <a href=../SYNTAX/keywords.html>Keywords</a> </td><td width=25%> <a href=../FUNCTIONS/index.htm>Functions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <p> <hr> This manual page was brought to you by <i>mjl_man V-2.0</i>
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