linux man page for curs_scanw

curs_scanw(3CURSES)					     Curses Library Functions					       curs_scanw(3CURSES)

NAME
       curs_scanw, scanw, wscanw, mvscanw, mvwscanw, vwscanw - convert formatted input from a curses widow

SYNOPSIS
       cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lcurses [ library ... ]
       #include <curses.h>

       int scanw(char *fmt, /* arg */ ...);

       int wscanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, /* arg */ ...);

       int mvscanw(int y, int x, char *fmt, /* arg */ ...);

       int mvwscanw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, char *fmt, /* arg */...);

       int vwscanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, va_list varglist);

DESCRIPTION
       The  scanw(),  wscanw(),  and mvscanw() routines correspond to scanf() (see scanf(3C)). The effect of these routines is as though wgetstr()
       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  fmt	field  are
       lost.

       The  vwscanw()  routine	is  similar  to  vwprintw() in that it performs a wscanw() using a variable argument list. The third argument is a
       va_list, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in <varargs.h>.

RETURN VALUES
       vwscanw() returns ERR on failure and an integer equal to the number of fields scanned on success.

       Applications may interrogate the return value from the scanw, wscanw(), mvscanw(), and mvwscanw()  routines  to	determine  the	number	of
       fields which were mapped in the call.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       curs_getstr(3CURSES), curs_printw(3CURSES), curses(3CURSES), scanf(3C), attributes(5)

NOTES
       The header <curses.h> automatically includes the headers  <stdio.h> and <unctrl.h>.

SunOS 5.10							    31 Dec 1996 					       curs_scanw(3CURSES)