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Header filestdlib.h
Declarationsize_t mbstowcs(wchar_t *out, const char *in, size_t size);
Functionconverts the multibyte string *in into a wide-character string *out. Only size number of bytes will be stored in out.
Returnreturns the number of multibyte characters converted or -1 on error.


Converts the first four characters in *mb and puts the result in str:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void){

  char *mb = "asdfadsf";
  char str[1000];

  mbstowcs(str, mb, 4);
 
  printf("%s",str);

}

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