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<H1 class="no-header">curs_printw 3x</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>                                         <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>


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<H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>
       - print formatted output in <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows


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<H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>

       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>printw(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvprintw(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG>  <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG>
       <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG>  <STRONG>vwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG>  <STRONG>*win,</STRONG>  <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>var-</STRONG>
       <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vw_printw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG>  <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>  <STRONG>var-</STRONG>
       <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>


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<H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
       The  <STRONG>printw</STRONG>,  <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG> routines are
       analogous to  <STRONG>printf</STRONG>  [see  <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>].   In  effect,  the
       string that would be output by <STRONG>printf</STRONG> is output instead as
       though <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> were used on the given window.

       The <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>wv_printw</STRONG>  routines  are  analogous  to
       <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG>  [see  <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>]  and  perform  a <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> using a
       variable argument list.  The third argument is a  <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>,
       a   pointer   to  a  list  of  arguments,  as  defined  in
       <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.


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<H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
       Routines that return an integer return  <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>  upon  failure
       and  <STRONG>OK</STRONG>  (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
       <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.

       X/Open defines no error conditions.  In  this  implementa-
       tion,  an  error  may  be  returned  if it cannot allocate
       enough memory for the buffer used to format  the  results.
       It will return an error if the window pointer is null.

       Functions  with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
       ment using <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the  position  is
       outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.


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<H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
       The  XSI  Curses  standard,  Issue 4 describes these func-
       tions.  The function <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> is marked TO  BE  WITHDRAWN,
       and  is  to  be replaced by a function <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> using the
       <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> interface.  The Single Unix Specification, Ver-
       sion  2  states  that  <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>  is preferred to <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>
       since the latter  requires  including  <STRONG>&lt;varargs.h&gt;</STRONG>,  which
       cannot  be  used in the same file as <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.  This im-
       plementation uses <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> for both, because that header
       is included in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h</STRONG>&gt;.


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<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>, <STRONG>vprintf(3)</STRONG>


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