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.TH CURS_SCANW 3CURSES "Dec 31, 1996"
.SH NAME
curs_scanw, scanw, wscanw, mvscanw, mvwscanw, vwscanw \- convert formatted
input from a curses widow
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR ... ] \fIfile\fR ... \fB-lcurses\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR ... ]
#include <curses.h>

\fBint\fR \fBscanw\fR(\fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ...);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBwscanw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ...);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvscanw\fR(\fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ...);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvwscanw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */...);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBvwscanw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fBva_list\fR \fIvarglist\fR);
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The \fBscanw()\fR, \fBwscanw()\fR, and \fBmvscanw()\fR routines correspond to
\fBscanf()\fR (see \fBscanf\fR(3C)). The effect of these routines is as though
\fBwgetstr()\fR were called on the window, and the resulting line used as input
for the scan. Fields which do not map to a variable in the \fBfmt\fR field are
lost.
.sp
.LP
The \fBvwscanw()\fR routine is similar to \fBvwprintw()\fR \fBin\fR \fBthat\fR
it performs a \fBwscanw()\fR using a variable argument list. The third argument
is a \fIva_list\fR, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in
\fB<varargs.h>\fR\&.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
\fBvwscanw()\fR returns \fBERR\fR on failure and an integer equal to the number
of fields scanned on success.
.sp
.LP
Applications may interrogate the return value from the \fBscanw\fR,
\fBwscanw()\fR, \fBmvscanw()\fR, and \fBmvwscanw()\fR routines to determine the
number of fields which were mapped in the call.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
box;
c | c
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
MT-Level	Unsafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
.BR scanf (3C),
.BR curs_getstr (3CURSES),
.BR curs_printw (3CURSES),
.BR curses (3CURSES),
.BR attributes (7)
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
The header <\fBcurses.h\fR> automatically includes the headers  <\fBstdio.h\fR>
and <\fBunctrl.h\fR>.