MBSTOWCS
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: March 29, 1993
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
mblen(3), mbtowc(3), wcstombs(3), wctomb(3)