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<td> <div>Defined in header <code>&lt;stdlib.h&gt;</code>
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<td> <div><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a> wcstombs<span class="br0">&#40;</span> <span class="kw4">char</span> &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;<span class="sy2">*</span>dst, <span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">wchar_t</span> &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;<span class="sy2">*</span>src, <a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a> len <span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span></span></div></td>
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<td> <div><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a> wcstombs<span class="br0">&#40;</span> <span class="kw4">char</span> <span class="sy2">*</span><span class="kw4">restrict</span> dst, <span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">wchar_t</span> <span class="sy2">*</span><span class="kw4">restrict</span> src, <a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a> len <span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span></span></div></td>
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<td> <div><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">errno_t wcstombs_s<span class="br0">&#40;</span> <a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a> <span class="sy2">*</span><span class="kw4">restrict</span> retval, <span class="kw4">char</span> <span class="sy2">*</span><span class="kw4">restrict</span> dst, rsize_t dstsz,<br />
&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; <span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">wchar_t</span> <span class="sy2">*</span><span class="kw4">restrict</span> src, rsize_t len <span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span></span></div></td>
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<div class="t-li1"><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 initial shift state. 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.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> Each character is converted as if by a call to <span class="t-lc"><a href="wctomb.html" title="c/string/multibyte/wctomb">wctomb</a></span>, except that the wctomb's conversion state is unaffected. The conversion stops if:</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * The null character <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">L<span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span> was converted and stored. The bytes stored in this case are the unshift sequence (if necessary) followed by <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span>,</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * A <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">wchar_t</span></span></span> was found that does not correspond to a valid character in the current C locale.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * The next multibyte character to be stored would exceed <code>len</code>.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> If <code>src</code> and <code>dst</code> overlap, the behavior is unspecified.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li">2)</span> Same as <span class="t-v">(1)</span>, except that</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * conversion is as-if by <span class="t-lc"><a href="wcrtomb.html" title="c/string/multibyte/wcrtomb">wcrtomb</a></span>, not <span class="t-lc"><a href="wctomb.html" title="c/string/multibyte/wctomb">wctomb</a></span></div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * the function returns its result as an out-parameter <code>retval</code></div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * if the conversion stops without writing a null character, the function will store <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span> 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.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * if <code>dst</code> is a null pointer, the number of wide characters that would be produced is stored in <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy2">*</span>retval</span></span></div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * the function clobbers the destination array from the terminating null and until <code>dstsz</code></div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * If <code>src</code> and <code>dst</code> overlap, the behavior is unspecified.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li"></span> * the following errors are detected at runtime and call the currently installed <a href="../../error/set_constraint_handler_s.html" title="c/error/set constraint handler s">constraint handler</a> function:
<dl><dd><ul><li> <code>retval</code> or <code>src</code> is a null pointer
</li><li> <code>dstsz</code> or <code>len</code> is greater than <span class="t-lc">RSIZE_MAX</span> (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)
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</dd><dd>As all bounds-checked functions, <code>wcstombs_s</code> is only guaranteed to be available if <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">__STDC_LIB_EXT1__</span></span> is defined by the implementation and if the user defines <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">__STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__</span></span> to the integer constant <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="nu0">1</span></span></span> before including <code>stdlib.h</code>.</div>
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<p>In most implementations, <code>wcstombs</code> updates a global static object of type <span class="t-lc"><a href="mbstate_t.html" title="c/string/multibyte/mbstate t">mbstate_t</a></span> as it processes through the string, and cannot be called simultaneously by two threads, <span class="t-lc"><a href="wcsrtombs.html" title="c/string/multibyte/wcsrtombs">wcsrtombs</a></span> or <code>wcstombs_s</code> should be used in such cases.
</p><p>POSIX specifies a common extension: if <code>dst</code> is a null pointer, this function returns the number of bytes that would be written to <code>dst</code>, if converted. Similar behavior is standard for <span class="t-lc"><a href="wcsrtombs.html" title="c/string/multibyte/wcsrtombs">wcsrtombs</a></span> and <code>wcstombs_s</code>.
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<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 <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span>) written to the character array whose first element is pointed to by <code>dst</code>. On conversion error (if invalid wide character was encountered), returns <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="br0">&#40;</span><a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a><span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy2">-</span><span class="nu0">1</span></span></span>.</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 <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy2">*</span>retval</span></span>), non-zero on error. In case of a runtime constraint violation, stores <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="br0">&#40;</span><a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a><span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy2">-</span><span class="nu0">1</span></span></span> in <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy2">*</span>retval</span></span> (unless <code>retval</code> is null) and sets <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">dst<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="nu0">0</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span> to <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span> (unless <code>dst</code> is null or <code>dstmax</code> is zero or greater than <span class="t-lc">RSIZE_MAX</span>)</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="c source-c"><pre class="de1"><span class="co2">#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;</span>
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<span class="co2">#include &lt;locale.h&gt;</span>
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    <span class="co1">// 4 wide characters</span>
    <span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">wchar_t</span> src<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span> <span class="sy1">=</span> L<span class="st0">&quot;z<span class="es3">\u00df</span><span class="es3">\u6c34</span><span class="es4">\U0001f34c</span>&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
    <span class="co1">// they occupy 10 bytes in UTF-8</span>
    <span class="kw4">char</span> dst<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="nu0">11</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
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    <a href="../../io/fprintf.html"><span class="kw850">printf</span></a><span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="st0">&quot;wide-character string: '%ls'<span class="es1">\n</span>&quot;</span>,src<span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
    <span class="kw1">for</span> <span class="br0">&#40;</span><a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a> ndx<span class="sy1">=</span><span class="nu0">0</span><span class="sy4">;</span> ndx <span class="sy1">&lt;</span> <span class="kw4">sizeof</span> src<span class="sy2">/</span><span class="kw4">sizeof</span> src<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="nu0">0</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span><span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="sy2">++</span>ndx<span class="br0">&#41;</span>
        <a href="../../io/fprintf.html"><span class="kw850">printf</span></a><span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="st0">&quot;   src[%2zu] =&#160;%#8x<span class="es1">\n</span>&quot;</span>, ndx, src<span class="br0">&#91;</span>ndx<span class="br0">&#93;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
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    <span class="kw4">int</span> rtn_val <span class="sy1">=</span> wcstombs<span class="br0">&#40;</span>dst, src, <span class="kw4">sizeof</span> dst<span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
    <a href="../../io/fprintf.html"><span class="kw850">printf</span></a><span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="st0">&quot;rtn_val =&#160;%d<span class="es1">\n</span>&quot;</span>, rtn_val<span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
    <span class="kw1">if</span> <span class="br0">&#40;</span>rtn_val <span class="sy1">&gt;</span> <span class="nu0">0</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span>
        <a href="../../io/fprintf.html"><span class="kw850">printf</span></a><span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="st0">&quot;multibyte string:  '%s'<span class="es1">\n</span>&quot;</span>,dst<span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
    <span class="kw1">for</span> <span class="br0">&#40;</span><a href="../../types/size_t.html"><span class="kw100">size_t</span></a> ndx<span class="sy1">=</span><span class="nu0">0</span><span class="sy4">;</span> ndx<span class="sy1">&lt;</span><span class="kw4">sizeof</span> dst<span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="sy2">++</span>ndx<span class="br0">&#41;</span>
        <a href="../../io/fprintf.html"><span class="kw850">printf</span></a><span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="st0">&quot;   dst[%2zu] =&#160;%#2x<span class="es1">\n</span>&quot;</span>, ndx, <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="kw4">unsigned</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span>dst<span class="br0">&#91;</span>ndx<span class="br0">&#93;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
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<p>Output:
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="text source-text"><pre class="de1">wide-character string: 'zß水🍌'
   src[ 0] =     0x7a
   src[ 1] =     0xdf
   src[ 2] =   0x6c34
   src[ 3] =  0x1f34c
   src[ 4] =        0
rtn_val = 10
multibyte string:  'zß水🍌'
   dst[ 0] = 0x7a
   dst[ 1] = 0xc3
   dst[ 2] = 0x9f
   dst[ 3] = 0xe6
   dst[ 4] = 0xb0
   dst[ 5] = 0xb4
   dst[ 6] = 0xf0
   dst[ 7] = 0x9f
   dst[ 8] = 0x8d
   dst[ 9] = 0x8c
   dst[10] =  0</pre></div></div> 
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<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=c/string/multibyte/wcstombs&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3>
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<ul><li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): 
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<dl><dd><ul><li> 7.22.8.2 The wcstombs function (p: 360)
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</dd></dl>
<dl><dd><ul><li> K.3.6.5.2 The wcstombs_s function (p: 612-614)
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<ul><li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): 
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> 7.20.8.2 The wcstombs function (p: 324)
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</dd></dl>
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<ul><li> C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990): 
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> 4.10.8.2 The wcstombs function 
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</dd></dl>
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