MBSNRTOWCS(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		 MBSNRTOWCS(3)



NAME
       mbsnrtowcs - convert a multibyte string to a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS
       #include <wchar.h>

       size_t mbsnrtowcs(wchar_t *dest, const char **src,
			 size_t nms, size_t len, mbstate_t *ps);

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

       mbsnrtowcs():
	   Since glibc 2.10:
	       _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
	   Before glibc 2.10:
	       _GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       The  mbsnrtowcs()  function  is	like the mbsrtowcs(3) function, except
       that the number of bytes to be converted, starting at *src, is  limited
       to at most nms bytes.

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

       1. An invalid multibyte sequence has been encountered.  In  this	 case,
	  *src is left pointing to the invalid multibyte sequence, (size_t) -1
	  is returned, and errno is set to EILSEQ.

       2. The nms limit forces a stop, or len non-L'\0' wide  characters  have
	  been	stored	at  dest.   In this case, *src is left pointing to the
	  next multibyte sequence to be converted,  and	 the  number  of  wide
	  characters written to dest is returned.

       3. The  multibyte  string  has been completely converted, including the
	  terminating null wide character ('\0') (which has the side effect of
	  bringing  back *ps to the initial state).  In this case, *src is set
	  to NULL, and the number of wide characters written to dest,  exclud-
	  ing the terminating null wide character, is returned.

       According to POSIX.1, if the input buffer ends with an incomplete char-
       acter, it is unspecified whether conversion stops at  the  end  of  the
       previous	 character  (if	 any), or at the end of the input buffer.  The
       glibc implementation adopts the former behavior.

       If dest is NULL, len is ignored, and the conversion proceeds as	above,
       except  that  the converted wide characters are not written out to mem-
       ory, 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 mbsnrtowcs() function is used instead.

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

RETURN VALUE
       The mbsnrtowcs() function returns the number of	wide  characters  that
       make  up the converted part of the wide-character string, not including
       the terminating null wide character.  If an invalid multibyte  sequence
       was encountered, (size_t) -1 is returned, and errno set to EILSEQ.

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

       +-------------+---------------+-------------------------------+
       |Interface    | Attribute     | Value			     |
       +-------------+---------------+-------------------------------+
       |mbsnrtowcs() | Thread safety | MT-Unsafe race:mbsnrtowcs/!ps |
       +-------------+---------------+-------------------------------+

CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2008.

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

       Passing NULL as ps is not multithread safe.

SEE ALSO
       iconv(3), mbrtowc(3) mbsinit(3), mbsrtowcs(3)

COLOPHON
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