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<h3>MBLEN(3)            Linux Programmer's Manual            MBLEN(3)
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<h3>NAME
</h3>       mblen - determine the number of bytes in a character

<h3>SYNOPSIS
</h3>       #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;

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

<h3>DESCRIPTION
</h3>       The mblen() function scans the first n bytes of the string
       s and returns the number of bytes  in  a  character.   The
       mblen() function is equivalent to

              mbtowc((wchat_t *)0, s, n);

       except  that  the  shift state of the mbtowc() function is
       not affected.

<h3>RETURN VALUE
</h3>       The mblen() returns the number of bytes in a character  or
       -1 if the character is invalid or 0 if s is a NULL string.

<h3>CONFORMING TO
</h3>       SVID 3, ISO 9899

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<h3>SEE ALSO
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<a href=mbstowcs.htm>mbstowcs</a>, 
<a href=mbtowc.htm>mbtowc</a>, 
<a href=wcstombs.htm>wcstombs</a>, 
<a href=wctomb.htm>wctomb</a>, 
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<h3>GNU                       March 29, 1993                        1
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