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+ <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">mbrlen</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 t-since-c95 t-until-c99"> <td> <pre data-language="c">size_t mbrlen( const char *s, size_t n, mbstate_t *ps );</pre>
+</td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </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 mbrlen( const char *restrict s, size_t n, mbstate_t *restrict ps );</pre>
+</td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c99">(since C99)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <p>Determines the size, in bytes, of the representation of a multibyte character.</p>
+<p>This function is equivalent to the call <code><a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/multibyte/mbrtowc"><span class="kw583">mbrtowc</span></a><span class="br0">(</span><a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/NULL"><span class="kw103">NULL</span></a>, s, n, ps<span class="sy4">?</span>ps<span class="sy4">:</span><span class="sy3">&amp;</span>internal<span class="br0">)</span></code> for some hidden object <code>internal</code> of type <code><a href="mbstate_t" title="c/string/multibyte/mbstate t">mbstate_t</a></code>, except that the expression <code>ps</code> is evaluated only once.</p>
+<h3 id="Parameters"> Parameters</h3> <table class="t-par-begin"> <tr class="t-par"> <td> s </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to an element of a multibyte character string </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> n </td> <td> - </td> <td> limit on the number of bytes in s that can be examined </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> ps </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to the variable holding the conversion state </td>
+</tr>
+</table> <h3 id="Return_value"> Return value</h3> <p>The first of the following that applies:</p>
+<ul>
+<li> <code>​0​</code> if the next <code>n</code> or fewer bytes complete the null character or if <code>s</code> is a null pointer. Both cases reset the conversion state. </li>
+<li> the number of bytes <code>[1...n]</code> that complete a valid multibyte character </li>
+<li> <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">2</span></code> if the next <code>n</code> bytes are part of a possibly valid multibyte character, which is still incomplete after examining all <code>n</code> bytes </li>
+<li> <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> if encoding error occurs. The value of <code><a href="../../error/errno" title="c/error/errno">errno</a></code> is <code>EILSEQ</code>; the conversion state is unspecified. </li>
+</ul> <h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#include &lt;locale.h&gt;
+#include &lt;string.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;wchar.h&gt;
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ // allow mbrlen() to work with UTF-8 multibyte encoding
+ setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
+ // UTF-8 narrow multibyte encoding
+ const char* str = u8"水";
+ size_t sz = strlen(str);
+
+ mbstate_t mb;
+ memset(&amp;mb, 0, sizeof mb);
+ int len1 = mbrlen(str, 1, &amp;mb);
+ if(len1 == -2)
+ printf("The first 1 byte of %s is an incomplete multibyte char"
+ " (mbrlen returns -2)\n", str);
+
+ int len2 = mbrlen(str+1, sz-1, &amp;mb);
+ printf("The remaining %zu bytes of %s hold %d bytes of the multibyte"
+ " character\n", sz-1, str, len2);
+
+ printf("Attempting to call mbrlen() in the middle of %s while in initial"
+ " shift state returns %zd\n", str, mbrlen(str+1, sz-1, &amp;mb));
+}</pre></div> <p>Output:</p>
+<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">The first 1 byte of 水 is an incomplete multibyte char (mbrlen returns -2)
+The remaining 2 bytes of 水 hold 2 bytes of the multibyte character
+Attempting to call mbrlen() in the middle of 水 while in initial shift state returns -1</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="References"> References</h3> <ul>
+<li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): </li>
+<ul><li> 7.29.6.3.1 The mbrlen function (p: 442) </li></ul>
+<li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): </li>
+<ul><li> 7.24.6.3.1 The mbrlen function (p: 388) </li></ul>
+</ul> <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="mbrtowc" title="c/string/multibyte/mbrtowc"> <span class="t-lines"><span>mbrtowc</span></span></a></div>
+<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c95">(C95)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> converts the next multibyte character to wide character, given state <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="mblen" title="c/string/multibyte/mblen"> <span class="t-lines"><span>mblen</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> returns the number of bytes in the next multibyte character <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/mbrlen" title="cpp/string/multibyte/mbrlen">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>mbrlen</code> </td>
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