std::wcsrtombs

Converts a sequence of wide characters from the array whose first element is pointed to by *src to its narrow multibyte representation that begins in the conversion state described by *ps. If dst is not null, converted characters are stored in the successive elements of the char array pointed to by dst. No more than len

Each character is converted as if by a call to std::wcrtomb. The conversion stops if:

• The null character was converted and stored. src is set to a null pointer and *ps
• A wchar_t was found that does not correspond to a valid character in the current C locale. src
• The next multibyte character to be stored would exceed len. src is set to point at the first unconverted wide character. This condition is not checked if dst

Parameters

Return value

On success, returns the number of bytes (including any shift sequences, but excluding the terminating '\0') written to the character array whose first element is pointed to by dst. If dst is a null pointer, returns the number of bytes that would have been written (again, excluding the terminating null character '\0'

On conversion error (if invalid wide character was encountered), returns static_cast < std::size_t > ( - 1 ) , stores EILSEQ in errno, and leaves *ps

Example

#include <clocale>
#include <cwchar>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
 
void print_wide(const wchar_t* wstr)
{
    std::mbstate_t state = std::mbstate_t();
    std::size_t len = 1 + std::wcsrtombs(nullptr, &wstr, 0, &state);
    std::vector<char> mbstr(len);
    std::wcsrtombs(&mbstr[0], &wstr, mbstr.size(), &state);
    std::cout << "multibyte string: " << &mbstr[0] << '\n'
              << "Length, including '\\0': " << mbstr.size() << '\n';
}
 
int main()
{
    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    // UTF-8 narrow multibyte encoding
    const wchar_t* wstr = L"z\u00df\u6c34\U0001d10b"; // or L"zß水𝄋"
    print_wide(wstr);
}

multibyte string: zß水𝄋
Length, including '\0': 11

See also