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fmt_ip6_flat(3) 					     Library Functions Manual						   fmt_ip6_flat(3)

NAME
       fmt_ip6_flat - write a formatted ASCII representation of an IPv6 number

SYNTAX
       #include <ip6.h>

       unsigned int fmt_ip6_flat(char *dest,const char ip[16]);

DESCRIPTION
       fmt_ip6_flat  formats an IPv6 number in a flat ASCII representation from ip and writes the result into dest. It returns the number of bytes
       written (always 32).

       This representation does not contain colons and is meant to be easily machine-readable.	Use fmt_ip6 for the normal (standard)  representa-
       tion.   This  function  is meant for places which use colons to separate fields and thus have problems interpreting the standard IPv6 nota-
       tion.

       If dest equals FMT_LEN (i.e. is zero), fmt_ip6_flat returns the number of bytes it would have written.

       fmt_ip6_flat does not append .

       For convenience, ip6.h defines the integer IP6_FMT to be big enough to contain every possible fmt_ip6_flat output plus .

EXAMPLE
       #include <ip6.h>

	 char buf[IP6_FMT];
	 char ip[16];
	 buf[fmt_ip6_flat(buf,ip)]=0;

SEE ALSO
       scan_ip6_flat(3), fmt_ip6(3)

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