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Multibyte Character Functions

Introduction

This chapter introduces fundamental concepts of multibyte character sequences, discusses the SAS/C implementation of multibyte character sequences, and describes five functions designed specifically to work with multibyte character sequences. These functions are as follows:

mblen determines the length of a multibyte character.

mbstowcs converts a multibyte character sequence to a wide character sequence.

mbtowc converts a single multibyte character to a wide character.

wcstombs converts a wide character sequence to a multibyte character sequence.

wctomb converts a single wide character to a multibyte character.

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