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+ <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">wcsrtombs, wcsrtombs_s</h1> <table class="t-dcl-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;wchar.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl-rev-aux"> <td></td> <td rowspan="3">(1)</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl t-since-c95 t-until-c99"> <td><pre data-language="c">size_t wcsrtombs( char *dst, const wchar_t **src, size_t len, mbstate_t* ps );</pre></td> <td>
+<span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c95">(since C95)</span> <br><span class="t-mark-rev t-until-c99">(until C99)</span>
+</td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl t-since-c99"> <td> <pre data-language="c">size_t wcsrtombs( char *restrict dst, const wchar_t **restrict src, size_t len,
+ mbstate_t *restrict ps );</pre>
+</td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c99">(since C99)</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl t-since-c11"> <td> <pre data-language="c">errno_t wcsrtombs_s( size_t *restrict retval, char *restrict dst, rsize_t dstsz,
+ const wchar_t **restrict src, rsize_t len,
+ mbstate_t *restrict ps );</pre>
+</td> <td> (2) </td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(since C11)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="t-li">1)</span> Converts a sequence of wide characters from the array whose first element is pointed to by <code>*src</code> to its narrow multibyte representation that begins in the conversion state described by <code>*ps</code>. If <code>dst</code> is not null, converted characters are stored in the successive elements of the char array pointed to by <code>dst</code>. No more than <code>len</code> bytes are written to the destination array. Each character is converted as if by a call to <code><a href="wcrtomb" title="c/string/multibyte/wcrtomb">wcrtomb</a></code>. The conversion stops if: <ul>
+<li> The null character <code>L'\0'</code> was converted and stored. The bytes stored in this case are the unshift sequence (if necessary) followed by <code>'\0'</code>, <code>*src</code> is set to null pointer value and <code>*ps</code> represents the initial shift state. </li>
+<li> A <code>wchar_t</code> was found that does not correspond to a valid character in the current C locale. <code>*src</code> is set to point at the first unconverted wide character. </li>
+<li> the next multibyte character to be stored would exceed <code>len</code>. <code>*src</code> is set to point at the first unconverted wide character. This condition is not checked if <code>dst</code> is a null pointer.</li>
+</ul> <span class="t-li">2)</span> Same as <span class="t-v">(1)</span>, except that <ul>
+<li> the function returns its result as an out-parameter <code>retval</code> </li>
+<li> if the conversion stops without writing a null character, the function will store <code>'\0'</code> in the next byte in <code>dst</code>, which may be <code>dst[len]</code> or <code>dst[dstsz]</code>, whichever comes first (meaning up to len+1/dstsz+1 total bytes may be written). In this case, there may be no unshift sequence written before the terminating null. </li>
+<li> the function clobbers the destination array from the terminating null and until <code>dstsz</code> </li>
+<li> If <code>src</code> and <code>dst</code> overlap, the behavior is unspecified. </li>
+<li> the following errors are detected at runtime and call the currently installed <a href="../../error/set_constraint_handler_s" title="c/error/set constraint handler s">constraint handler</a> function: </li>
+</ul> <dl>
+<dd>
+<ul>
+<li> <code>retval</code>, <code>ps</code>, <code>src</code>, or <code>*src</code> is a null pointer </li>
+<li> <code>dstsz</code> or <code>len</code> is greater than <code>RSIZE_MAX</code> (unless <code>dst</code> is null) </li>
+<li> <code>dstsz</code> is not zero (unless <code>dst</code> is null) </li>
+<li> <code>len</code> is greater than <code>dstsz</code> and the conversion does not encounter null or encoding error in the <code>src</code> array by the time <code>dstsz</code> is reached (unless <code>dst</code> is null) </li>
+</ul> </dd>
+<dd>As with all bounds-checked functions, <code>wcsrtombs_s</code> only guaranteed to be available if <code>__STDC_LIB_EXT1__</code> is defined by the implementation and if the user defines <code>__STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__</code> to the integer constant <code>1</code> before including <a href="../wide" title="c/string/wide"><code>&lt;wchar.h&gt;</code></a>.</dd>
+</dl> <h3 id="Parameters"> Parameters</h3> <table class="t-par-begin"> <tr class="t-par"> <td> dst </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to narrow character array where the multibyte characters will be stored </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> src </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to pointer to the first element of a null-terminated wide string </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> len </td> <td> - </td> <td> number of bytes available in the array pointed to by dst </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> ps </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to the conversion state object </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> dstsz </td> <td> - </td> <td> max number of bytes that will be written (size of the <code>dst</code> array) </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> retval </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to a <code><a href="../../types/size_t" title="c/types/size t">size_t</a></code> object where the result will be stored </td>
+</tr>
+</table> <h3 id="Return_value"> Return value</h3> <div class="t-li1">
+<span class="t-li">1)</span> On success, returns the number of bytes (including any shift sequences, but excluding the terminating <code>'\0'</code>) written to the character array whose first element is pointed to by <code>dst</code>. If <code>dst</code> is a null pointer, returns the number of bytes that would have been written. On conversion error (if invalid wide character was encountered), returns <code><span class="br0">(</span><a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/size_t"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy2">-</span><span class="nu0">1</span></code>, stores <code><a href="../../error/errno_macros" title="c/error/errno macros">EILSEQ</a></code> in <code><a href="../../error/errno" title="c/error/errno">errno</a></code>, and leaves <code>*ps</code> in unspecified state.</div> <div class="t-li1">
+<span class="t-li">2)</span> Returns zero on success (in which case the number of bytes excluding terminating zero that were, or would be written to <code>dst</code>, is stored in <code>*retval</code>), non-zero on error. In case of a runtime constraint violation, stores <code><span class="br0">(</span><a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/size_t"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy2">-</span><span class="nu0">1</span></code> in <code>*retval</code> (unless <code>retval</code> is null) and sets <code>dst[0]</code> to <code>'\0'</code> (unless <code>dst</code> is null or <code>dstmax</code> is zero or greater than <code>RSIZE_MAX</code>)</div> <h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;locale.h&gt;
+#include &lt;string.h&gt;
+#include &lt;wchar.h&gt;
+
+void print_wide(const wchar_t* wstr)
+{
+ mbstate_t state;
+ memset(&amp;state, 0, sizeof state);
+ size_t len = 1 + wcsrtombs(NULL, &amp;wstr, 0, &amp;state);
+ char mbstr[len];
+ wcsrtombs(mbstr, &amp;wstr, len, &amp;state);
+ printf("Multibyte string: %s\n", mbstr);
+ printf("Length, including '\\0': %zu\n", len);
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
+ print_wide(L"z\u00df\u6c34\U0001f34c"); // or L"zß水🍌"
+}</pre></div> <p>Output:</p>
+<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">Multibyte string: zß水🍌
+Length, including '\0': 11</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="References"> References</h3> <ul>
+<li> C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018): </li>
+<ul>
+<li> 7.29.6.4.2 The wcsrtombs function (p: 324-325) </li>
+<li> K.3.9.3.2.2 The wcsrtombs_s function (p: 471-472) </li>
+</ul>
+<li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): </li>
+<ul>
+<li> 7.29.6.4.2 The wcsrtombs function (p: 446) </li>
+<li> K.3.9.3.2.2 The wcsrtombs_s function (p: 649-651) </li>
+</ul>
+<li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): </li>
+<ul><li> 7.24.6.4.2 The wcsrtombs function (p: 392) </li></ul>
+</ul> <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="wcstombs" title="c/string/multibyte/wcstombs"> <span class="t-lines"><span>wcstombs</span><span>wcstombs_s</span></span></a></div>
+<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> converts a wide string to narrow multibyte character string <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="wcrtomb" title="c/string/multibyte/wcrtomb"> <span class="t-lines"><span>wcrtomb</span><span>wcrtomb_s</span></span></a></div>
+<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c95">(C95)</span></span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> converts a wide character to its multibyte representation, given state <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="mbsrtowcs" title="c/string/multibyte/mbsrtowcs"> <span class="t-lines"><span>mbsrtowcs</span><span>mbsrtowcs_s</span></span></a></div>
+<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c95">(C95)</span></span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> converts a narrow multibyte character string to wide string, given state <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td colspan="2"> <span><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/multibyte/wcsrtombs" title="cpp/string/multibyte/wcsrtombs">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>wcsrtombs</code> </td>
+</tr> </table> <div class="_attribution">
+ <p class="_attribution-p">
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+ </p>
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