02-01-2008
Hi Karthik,
Thanks for the reply.
I do not have any particular list of invalid characters, the characters come up randomly. For example : ~, æ, £, Ç, Ä etc. Also I am not aware with perl, so clueless.
Can you plz help me in some other ways...!
-Kanu
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
mbstowcs
mbstowcs(3int) mbstowcs(3int)
Name
mbstowcs - converts a sequence of multibyte characters into a sequence of characters of type wchar_t.
Syntax
#include <stdlib.h>)
size_t mbstowcs (pwcs, s, n)
wchar_t *pwcs;
const char *s;
size_t n;
Arguments
pwcs The pwcs argument is a pointer to the resulting wide character string.
s The s argument is a pointer to the multibyte character sequence.
n The n argument is the maximum number of resulting wide characters stored in pwcs.
Description
The function converts a sequence of multibyte characters from the array pointed to by s into a sequence of characters of type wchar_t, and
stores not more than n characters into the array pointed to by pwcs. No multibyte characters that follow a null character (which is con-
verted into a code with value zero) are examined or converted. No more than n elements are modified in the array pointed to by pwcs. This
function is affected by the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
Return Values
If an invalid multibyte character is encountered, the function returns (size_t) -1. Otherwise, the function returns the number of array
elements modified, not including a terminating null character, if any. The array will not be null-terminated if the value returned is n.
See Also
mblen(3int), mbtowc(3int), setlocale(3int), wctomb(3int), wcstombs(3int)
mbstowcs(3int)