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.TH curs_instr 3CURSES "31 Dec 1996" "SunOS 5.11" "Curses Library Functions"
.SH NAME
curs_instr, instr, innstr, winstr, winnstr, mvinstr, mvinnstr, mvwinstr,
mvwinnstr \- get a string of characters from a curses window
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR ... ] \fIfile\fR ... \fB-lcurses\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR ... ]
#include <curses.h>

\fBint\fR \fBinstr\fR(\fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBinnstr\fR(\fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR, \fBint\fR \fIn\fR);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBwinstr\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBwinnstr\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR, \fBint\fR \fIn\fR);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvinstr\fR(\fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvinnstr\fR(\fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR, \fBint\fR \fIn\fR);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvwinstr\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR);
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvwinnstr\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIstr\fR, \fBint\fR \fIn\fR);
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
These routines return a string of characters in \fIstr\fR, starting at the
current cursor position in the named window and ending at the right margin of
the window. Attributes are stripped from the characters. The four functions
with \fIn\fR as the last argument return the string at most \fIn\fR characters
long.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and an integer value
other than \fBERR\fR upon successful completion.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
MT-LevelUnsafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBcurses\fR(3CURSES), \fBattributes\fR(5)
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
The header <\fBcurses.h\fR> automatically includes the headers  <\fBstdio.h\fR>
and <\fBunctrl.h\fR>.
.sp
.LP
Note that all routines except \fBwinnstr()\fR may be macros.