Synopsis
int mblen(const char *s,
          size_t n);
Description

mblen determines the number of bytes contained in the multi-byte character pointed to by s in the current locale.

If s is a null pointer, mblen returns a nonzero or zero value, if multi-byte character encodings, respectively, do or do not have state-dependent encodings

If s is not a null pointer, mblen either returns 0 (if s points to the null character), or returns the number of bytes that are contained in the multi-byte character (if the next n or fewer bytes form a valid multi-byte character), or returns −1 (if they do not form a valid multi-byte character).

Note

Except that the conversion state of the mbtowc function is not affected, it is equivalent to

mbtowc((wchar_t *)0, s, n); 
Note

It is guaranteed that no library function in the Standard C library calls mblen.

See Also

mblen_l, mbtowc