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.Dd August 16, 2002 .Dt MBRLEN 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm mbrlen .Nd "get number of bytes in a character (restartable)" .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS n wchar.h .Ft size_t .Fn mbrlen "const char * restrict s" "size_t n" "mbstate_t * restrict ps" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn mbrlen function determines the the number of bytes constituting the multibyte character sequence pointer to by .Fa s .

p It is equivalent to:

p .Dl "mbrtowc(NULL, s, n, ps);"

p Except that when .Fa ps is a NULL pointer, .Fn mbrlen uses its own static, internal .Ft mbstate_t object to keep track of shift state. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn mbrlen functions returns: l -tag -width indent t 0 The first .Fa n or fewer bytes of .Fa s represent the null wide character (L'\e0'). t >0 The first .Fa n or fewer bytes of .Fa s represent a valid character, .Fn mbrtowc returns the length (in bytes) of the multibyte sequence. t Xo .No ( Ns .Ft size_t Ns .No ) Ns -2 .Xc The first .Fa n bytes of .Fa s are an incomplete multibyte sequence. t Xo .No ( Ns .Ft size_t Ns .No ) Ns -1 .Xc The byte sequence pointed to by .Fa s is an invalid multibyte sequence. .El .Sh ERRORS The .Fn mbrlen function will fail if: l -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL
Invalid argument.
t Bq Er EILSEQ An invalid multibyte sequence was detected. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mblen 3 , .Xr mbrtowc 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn mbrlen function conforms to .St -isoC-99 . .Sh BUGS The current implementation does not support shift states.