curs_instr(3X)curs_instr(3X)NAME
instr, innstr, winstr, winnstr, mvinstr, mvinnstr, mvwinstr, mvwinnstr
- get a string of characters from a curses window
SYNOPSIS
#include <curses.h>
int instr(char *str);
int innstr(char *str, int n);
int winstr(WINDOW *win, char *str);
int winnstr(WINDOW *win, char *str, int n);
int mvinstr(int y, int x, char *str);
int mvinnstr(int y, int x, char *str, int n);
int mvwinstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, char *str);
int mvwinnstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, char *str, int n);
DESCRIPTION
These routines return a string of characters in str, extracted starting
at the current cursor position in the named window. Attributes are
stripped from the characters. The four functions with n as the last
argument return a leading substring at most n characters long (exclu‐
sive of the trailing NUL).
RETURN VALUE
All of the functions return ERR upon failure, or the number of charac‐
ters actually read into the string.
NOTES
Note that all routines except winnstr may be macros.
PORTABILITY
The XSI Curses error conditions EILSEQ and EILOVERFLOW associated with
extended-level conformance are not yet detected (this implementation
does not yet support XPG4 multi-byte characters). SVr4 does not docu‐
ment whether a length limit includes or excludes the trailing NUL.
The ncurses library extends the XSI description by allowing a negative
value for n. In this case, the functions return the string ending at
the right margin.
SEE ALSOcurses(3X).
curs_instr(3X)