ch

The character of type Chartype used by the locale to be converted.

default

The default value to be assigned by the member function to characters of type CharType that do not have counterpart characters of type char.

first

A pointer to the first character in the range of characters to be converted.

last

A pointer to the character immediately following the last character in the range of characters to be converted.

dest

A const pointer to the first character of type char in the destination range that stores the converted range of characters.

The first member function returns the native character of type char that corresponds to the parameter character of type CharType default if not counterpart is defined.

The second member function returns a pointer to the destination range of native characters converted from characters of type CharType.

The first member function returns do_narrow(ch, default). The second member function returns do_narrow (first, last, default, dest). Only the basic source characters are guaranteed to have a unique inverse image CharType under narrow. For these basic source characters, the following invariant holds: narrow ( widen ( c ), 0 ) == c.

// ctype_narrow.cpp
// compile with: /EHsc /W3
#include <locale>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main( )
{
   locale loc1 ( "english" );
   wchar_t *str1 = L"\x0392fhello everyone";
   char str2 [16];
   bool result1 = (use_facet<ctype<wchar_t> > ( loc1 ).narrow
      ( str1, str1 + wcslen(str1), 'X', &str2[0] ) != 0);  // C4996
   str2[wcslen(str1)] = '\0';
   wcout << str1 << endl;
   cout << &str2[0] << endl;
}

Xhello everyone

Header: <locale>

Namespace: std

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