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<h3>MBSTOWCS(3)         Linux Programmer's Manual         MBSTOWCS(3)
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<h3>NAME
</h3>       mbstowcs  - convert a multibyte string to a wide character
       string.
<h3>SYNOPSIS
</h3>       #include <stdlib.h>
       size_t mbstowcs(wchar_t *pwcs, const char *s, size_t n);
<h3>DESCRIPTION
</h3>       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.
<h3>RETURN VALUE
</h3>       mbstowcs() returns the number of wide characters stored or
       -1 if s contains an invalid multibyte character.
<h3>CONFORMING TO
</h3>       SVID 3, ISO 9899
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<h3>SEE ALSO
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<a href=mblen.htm>mblen</a>, 
<a href=mbtowc.htm>mbtowc</a>, 
<a href=wcstombs.htm>wcstombs</a>, 
<a href=wctomb.htm>wctomb</a>, 
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<h3>GNU                       March 29, 1993                        1
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