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<h3>WCSTOMBS(3)         Linux Programmer's Manual         WCSTOMBS(3)
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<h3>NAME
</h3>       wcstombs  - convert a wide character string to a multibyte
       character string.
<h3>SYNOPSIS
</h3>       #include <stdlib.h>
       size_t wcstombs(char *s, const wchar_t *pwcs, size_t n);
<h3>DESCRIPTION
</h3>       The wcstombs() function converts a sequence of wide  char-
       acters  from  the  array pwcs into a sequence of multibyte
       characters and stores up to n bytes of  multibyte  charac-
       ters in the array s.
<h3>RETURN VALUE
</h3>       wcstombs()  returns  the number of bytes stored in s or -1
       if s contains an invalid wide 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=mbstowcs.htm>mbstowcs</a>, 
<a href=wctomb.htm>wctomb</a>, 
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<h3>GNU                       March 29, 1993                        1
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