MBSTOWCS(3)
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 char-
acters 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)