| <html lang="en"> |
| <head> |
| <title>mbsrtowcs - Untitled</title> |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> |
| <meta name="description" content="Untitled"> |
| <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> |
| <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> |
| <link rel="up" href="Stdlib.html#Stdlib" title="Stdlib"> |
| <link rel="prev" href="_005f_005fmalloc_005flock.html#g_t_005f_005fmalloc_005flock" title="__malloc_lock"> |
| <link rel="next" href="mbstowcs.html#mbstowcs" title="mbstowcs"> |
| <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> |
| <style type="text/css"><!-- |
| pre.display { font-family:inherit } |
| pre.format { font-family:inherit } |
| pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } |
| pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } |
| pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } |
| pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } |
| span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } |
| span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } |
| span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } |
| --></style> |
| </head> |
| <body> |
| <div class="node"> |
| <a name="mbsrtowcs"></a> |
| <p> |
| Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="mbstowcs.html#mbstowcs">mbstowcs</a>, |
| Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="_005f_005fmalloc_005flock.html#g_t_005f_005fmalloc_005flock">__malloc_lock</a>, |
| Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Stdlib.html#Stdlib">Stdlib</a> |
| <hr> |
| </div> |
| |
| <h3 class="section">2.27 <code>mbsrtowcs</code>, <code>mbsnrtowcs</code>—convert a character string to a wide-character string</h3> |
| |
| <p><a name="index-mbsrtowcs-58"></a><a name="index-g_t_005fmbsrtowcs_005fr-59"></a><a name="index-mbsnrtowcs-60"></a><a name="index-g_t_005fmbsnrtowcs_005fr-61"></a><strong>Synopsis</strong> |
| <pre class="example"> #include <wchar.h> |
| size_t mbsrtowcs(wchar_t *<var>dst</var>, const char **<var>src</var>, size_t <var>len</var>, |
| mbstate_t *<var>ps</var>); |
| |
| #include <wchar.h> |
| size_t _mbsrtowcs_r(struct _reent *<var>ptr</var>, wchar_t *<var>dst</var>, |
| const char **<var>src</var>, size_t <var>len</var>, |
| mbstate_t *<var>ps</var>); |
| |
| #include <wchar.h> |
| size_t mbsnrtowcs(wchar_t *<var>dst</var>, const char **<var>src</var>, |
| size_t <var>nms</var>, size_t <var>len</var>, mbstate_t *<var>ps</var>); |
| |
| #include <wchar.h> |
| size_t _mbsnrtowcs_r(struct _reent *<var>ptr</var>, wchar_t *<var>dst</var>, |
| const char **<var>src</var>, size_t <var>nms</var>, |
| size_t <var>len</var>, mbstate_t *<var>ps</var>); |
| |
| </pre> |
| <p><strong>Description</strong><br> |
| The <code>mbsrtowcs</code> function converts a sequence of multibyte characters |
| pointed to indirectly by <var>src</var> into a sequence of corresponding wide |
| characters and stores at most <var>len</var> of them in the wchar_t array pointed |
| to by <var>dst</var>, until it encounters a terminating null character ('\0'). |
| |
| <p>If <var>dst</var> is NULL, no characters are stored. |
| |
| <p>If <var>dst</var> is not NULL, the pointer pointed to by <var>src</var> is updated to point |
| to the character after the one that conversion stopped at. If conversion |
| stops because a null character is encountered, *<var>src</var> is set to NULL. |
| |
| <p>The mbstate_t argument, <var>ps</var>, is used to keep track of the shift state. If |
| it is NULL, <code>mbsrtowcs</code> uses an internal, static mbstate_t object, which |
| is initialized to the initial conversion state at program startup. |
| |
| <p>The <code>mbsnrtowcs</code> function behaves identically to <code>mbsrtowcs</code>, except that |
| conversion stops after reading at most <var>nms</var> bytes from the buffer pointed |
| to by <var>src</var>. |
| |
| <p><br> |
| <strong>Returns</strong><br> |
| The <code>mbsrtowcs</code> and <code>mbsnrtowcs</code> functions return the number of wide |
| characters stored in the array pointed to by <var>dst</var> if successful, otherwise |
| it returns (size_t)-1. |
| |
| <p><br> |
| <strong>Portability</strong><br> |
| <code>mbsrtowcs</code> is defined by the C99 standard. |
| <code>mbsnrtowcs</code> is defined by the POSIX.1-2008 standard. |
| |
| <p><br> |
| |
| </body></html> |
| |