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Red Hat Documentation: man pages: man3: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)

Manpage of MBSTOWCS

MBSTOWCS

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: March 29, 2025
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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 characters 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


 

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