std::mbrlen

 

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mbtowc mbstowcs btowc mbrtowc mbsrtowcs mbrtoc8 (C++20) mbrtoc16 (C++11) mbrtoc32 (C++11)     mblen	wctomb wcstombs wctob wcrtomb wcsrtombs c8rtomb (C++20) c16rtomb (C++11) c32rtomb (C++11) mbrlen
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Defined in header <cwchar>
std::size_t mbrlen( const char* s, std::size_t n, std::mbstate_t* ps);

Determines the size, in bytes, of the remainder of the multibyte character whose first byte is pointed to by s, given the current conversion state ps.

This function is equivalent to the call std::mbrtowc(nullptr, s, n, ps ? ps : &internal) for some hidden object internal of type std::mbstate_t, except that the expression ps is evaluated only once.

Parameters

s	-	pointer to an element of a multibyte character string
n	-	limit on the number of bytes in s that can be examined
ps	-	pointer to the variable holding the conversion state

Return value

• ​0​ if the next n or fewer bytes complete the null character.
• The number of bytes (between 1 and n) that complete a valid multibyte character.
• std::size_t(-1) if encoding error occurs.
• std::size_t(-2) if the next n bytes are part of a possibly valid multibyte character, which is still incomplete after examining all n bytes.

Example

Run this code

#include <clocale>
#include <cwchar>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
 
int main()
{
    // allow mbrlen() to work with UTF-8 multibyte encoding
    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
 
    // UTF-8 narrow multibyte encoding
    std::string str = "水"; // or u8"\u6c34" or "\xe6\xb0\xb4"
    std::mbstate_t mb = std::mbstate_t();
 
    // simple use: length of a complete multibyte character
    const std::size_t len = std::mbrlen(&str[0], str.size(), &mb);
    std::cout << "The length of " << str << " is " << len << " bytes\n";
 
    // advanced use: restarting in the middle of a multibyte character
    const std::size_t len1 = std::mbrlen(&str[0], 1, &mb);
    if (len1 == std::size_t(-2))
        std::cout << "The first 1 byte of " << str
                  << " is an incomplete multibyte char (mbrlen returns -2)\n";
 
    const std::size_t len2 = std::mbrlen(&str[1], str.size() - 1, &mb);
    std::cout << "The remaining " << str.size() - 1 << " bytes of " << str
              << " hold " << len2 << " bytes of the multibyte character\n";
 
    // error case:
    std::cout << "Attempting to call mbrlen() in the middle of " << str
              << " while in initial shift state returns "
              << (int)mbrlen(&str[1], str.size(), &mb) << '\n';
}

Output:

The length of 水 is 3 bytes.
The first 1 byte of 水 is an incomplete multibyte char (mbrlen returns -2)
The remaining 2 bytes of 水 hold 2 bytes of the multibyte character
Attempting to call mbrlen() in the middle of 水 while in initial shift state returns -1

See also

mbrtowc	converts the next multibyte character to wide character, given state (function)
mblen	returns the number of bytes in the next multibyte character (function)
do_length [virtual]	calculates the length of the ExternT string that would be consumed by conversion into given InternT buffer (virtual protected member function of std::codecvt<InternT,ExternT,StateT>)
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