mbstowcs

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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 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)
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