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-<H1 class="no-header">curs_inchstr 3x 2023-07-01 ncurses 6.4 Library calls</H1>
+<H1 class="no-header">curs_inchstr 3x 2023-09-16 ncurses 6.4 Library calls</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_inchstr.3x.html">curs_inchstr(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inchstr.3x.html">curs_inchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>inchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>inchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinchnstr</STRONG>,
- <STRONG>mvwinchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinchnstr</STRONG> - get a string of characters (and attributes)
- from a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
+ <STRONG>inchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>inchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinchnstr</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>mvwinchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinchnstr</STRONG> - get a <EM>curses</EM> character string from a window
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
- These routines return a NULL-terminated array of <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> quantities,
- starting at the current cursor position in the named window and ending
- at the right margin of the window. The four functions with <EM>n</EM> as the
- last argument, return a leading substring at most <EM>n</EM> characters long
+ These routines return a NULL-terminated array of <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> quantities,
+ starting at the current cursor position in the named window and ending
+ at the right margin of the window. The four functions with <EM>n</EM> as the
+ last argument, return a leading substring at most <EM>n</EM> characters long
(exclusive of the trailing (chtype)0). Constants defined in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
- can be used with the <STRONG>&</STRONG> (logical AND) operator to extract the character
- or the attribute alone from any position in the <EM>chstr</EM> [see
+ can be used with the <STRONG>&</STRONG> (logical AND) operator to extract the character
+ or the attribute alone from any position in the <EM>chstr</EM> [see
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>].
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
- All routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an integer value
- other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon successful completion (the number of characters re-
- trieved, exclusive of the trailing 0).
+ All routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an integer value
+ other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon successful completion (the number of characters
+ retrieved, exclusive of the trailing 0).
X/Open Curses defines no error conditions. In this implementation:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If the <EM>chstr</EM> parameter is null, an error is returned,
- Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
+ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
<STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if
the window pointer is null.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
- Note that all routines except <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG> may be macros. SVr4 does not
- document whether the result string is zero-terminated; it does not doc-
- ument whether a length limit argument includes any trailing 0; and it
- does not document the meaning of the return value.
+ Note that all routines except <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG> may be macros. SVr4 does not
+ document whether the result string is zero-terminated; it does not
+ document whether a length limit argument includes any trailing 0; and
+ it does not document the meaning of the return value.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. It
- is no more specific than the SVr4 documentation on the trailing 0. It
+ These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. It
+ is no more specific than the SVr4 documentation on the trailing 0. It
does specify that the successful return of the functions is <STRONG>OK</STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
- Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) library are de-
- scribed in <STRONG><A HREF="curs_in_wchstr.3x.html">curs_in_wchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+ Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) library are
+
described in <STRONG><A HREF="curs_in_wchstr.3x.html">curs_in_wchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>.
-ncurses 6.4 2023-0
7-01 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inchstr.3x.html">curs_inchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-0
9-16 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inchstr.3x.html">curs_inchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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