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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +010041<H1 class="no-header">curs_inchstr 3x</H1>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +053042<PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +053043<STRONG><A HREF="curs_inchstr.3x.html">curs_inchstr(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inchstr.3x.html">curs_inchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +010049<H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +053050 <STRONG>inchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>inchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinchstr</STRONG>,
51 <STRONG>mvinchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinchnstr</STRONG> - get a string of
52 characters (and attributes) from a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +010056<H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +053057 <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
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59 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>inchstr(chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
60 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>inchnstr(chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
61 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>winchstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
62 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>winchnstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
63 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinchstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
64 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinchnstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
65 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinchstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
66 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinchnstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr,</STRONG>
67 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +010071<H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +053072 These routines return a NULL-terminated array of <STRONG>chtype</STRONG>
73 quantities, starting at the current cursor position in the
74 named window and ending at the right margin of the window.
75 The four functions with <EM>n</EM> as the last argument, return a
76 leading substring at most <EM>n</EM> characters long (exclusive of
77 the trailing (chtype)0). Constants defined in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
78 can be used with the <STRONG>&amp;</STRONG> (logical AND) operator to extract
79 the character or the attribute alone from any position in
80 the <EM>chstr</EM> [see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>].
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +010084<H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +053085 All routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an
86 integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon successful completion
87 (the number of characters retrieved, exclusive of the
88 trailing 0).
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90 No error conditions are defined. If the <EM>chstr</EM> parameter
91 is null, no data is returned, and the return value is ze-
92 ro.
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +010094 Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
95 ment using <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is
96 outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100100<H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530101 Note that all routines except <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG> may be macros.
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100102 SVr4 does not document whether the result string is zero-
103 terminated; it does not document whether a length limit
104 argument includes any trailing 0; and it does not document
105 the meaning of the return value.
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100109<H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530110 These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,
111 Issue 4. It is no more specific than the SVr4 documenta-
112 tion on the trailing 0. It does specify that the success-
113 ful return of the functions is <STRONG>OK</STRONG>.
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100117<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530118 <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
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120 Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) li-
121 brary are described in <STRONG><A HREF="curs_in_wchstr.3x.html">curs_in_wchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>.
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125 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inchstr.3x.html">curs_inchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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132<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
133<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
134<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
135<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
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