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-</PRE>
-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>instr</STRONG>, <STRONG>innstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwin-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>str</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinnstr</STRONG> - get a string of characters from a <STRONG>curses</STRONG>
- window
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>instr</STRONG>, <STRONG>innstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinnstr</STRONG>
+ - get a string of characters from a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>instr(char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>instr(char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinnstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinnstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
- <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinnstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG>
- <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinnstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- These routines return a string of characters in <EM>str</EM>,
- extracted starting at the current cursor position in the
- named window. Attributes are stripped from the charac-
- ters. 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 NUL).
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+ These routines return a string of characters in <EM>str</EM>, extracted starting
+ at the current cursor position in the named window. Attributes are
+ stripped from the characters. The four functions with <EM>n</EM> as the last
+ argument return a leading substring at most <EM>n</EM> characters long (exclu-
+ sive of the trailing NUL).
-</PRE>
-<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
- All of the functions return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure, or the num-
- ber of characters actually read into the string.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
+ All of the functions return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure, or the number of charac-
+ ters actually read into the string.
- X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
- tion, if the window parameter is null or the str parameter
- is null, a zero is returned.
+ X/Open Curses defines no error conditions. In this implementation:
-</PRE>
-<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
+ <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
+ <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>
-</PRE>
-<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
- SVr4 does not document whether a length limit includes or
- excludes the trailing NUL.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+ SVr4 does not document whether a length limit includes or excludes the
+ trailing NUL.
- The ncurses library extends the XSI description by allow-
- ing a negative value for <EM>n</EM>. In this case, the functions
- return the string ending at the right margin.
+ The ncurses library extends the XSI description by allowing a negative
+ value for <EM>n</EM>. In this case, the functions return the string ending at
+ the right margin.
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+<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
+</ul>
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