wcsnrtombs - Man Page

convert a wide-character string to a multibyte string

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Synopsis

#include <wchar.h>

size_t wcsnrtombs(char dest[restrict .len], const wchar_t **restrict src,
                  size_t nwc, size_t len, mbstate_t *restrict ps);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

wcsnrtombs():

    Since glibc 2.10:
        _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
    Before glibc 2.10:
        _GNU_SOURCE

Description

The wcsnrtombs() function is like the wcsrtombs(3) function, except that the number of wide characters to be converted, starting at *src, is limited to nwc.

If dest is not NULL, the wcsnrtombs() function converts at most nwc wide characters from the wide-character string *src to a multibyte string starting at dest. At most len bytes are written to dest. The shift state *ps is updated. The conversion is effectively performed by repeatedly calling wcrtomb(dest, *src, ps), as long as this call succeeds, and then incrementing dest by the number of bytes written and *src by one. The conversion can stop for three reasons:

If dest is NULL, len is ignored, and the conversion proceeds as above, except that the converted bytes are not written out to memory, and that no destination length limit exists.

In both of the above cases, if ps is NULL, a static anonymous state known only to the wcsnrtombs() function is used instead.

The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least len bytes at dest.

Return Value

The wcsnrtombs() function returns the number of bytes that make up the converted part of multibyte sequence, not including the terminating null byte. If a wide character was encountered which could not be converted, (size_t) -1 is returned, and errno set to EILSEQ.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
wcsnrtombs()Thread safetyMT-Unsafe race:wcsnrtombs/!ps

Standards

POSIX.1-2008.

Notes

The behavior of wcsnrtombs() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

Passing NULL as ps is not multithread safe.

See Also

iconv(3), mbsinit(3), wcsrtombs(3)

Referenced By

wcsrtombs(3).

2024-06-15 Linux man-pages 6.9.1