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<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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<H2>NAME</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


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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>

       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>inchstr(chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>inchnstr(chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>winchstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>winchnstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinchstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
       <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>
       <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>
       <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>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>


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<H2>DESCRIPTION</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 (exclusive  of
       the  trailing (chtype)0).  Constants defined in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
       can be used with the <STRONG>&amp;</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>].


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<H2>RETURN VALUE</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  retrieved,  exclusive  of  the
       trailing 0).

       No  error  conditions are defined.  If the <EM>chstr</EM> parameter
       is null, no data is returned, and the return value is  ze-
       ro.


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<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
       Note  that  all  routines  except <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG> may be macros.
       SVr4 does not document whether the result string is 0-ter-
       minated; it does not document whether a length limit argu-
       ment includes any trailing 0; and it does not document the
       meaning of the return value.


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<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
       These  functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,
       Issue 4.  It is no more specific than the SVr4  documenta-
       tion on the trailing 0.  It does specify that the success-
       ful return of the functions is <STRONG>OK</STRONG>.


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<H2>SEE ALSO</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)  li-
       brary are described in <STRONG><A HREF="curs_in_wchstr.3x.html">curs_in_wchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>.


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