WCSTOMBS

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: March 29, 1993
 

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 characters from the array pwcs into a sequence of multibyte characters and stores up to n bytes of multibyte characters in the array s.  

RETURN VALUE

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

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, ISO 9899  

SEE ALSO

mblen(3), mbtowc(3), mbstowcs(3), wctomb(3)