php man page for ncurses_instr

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ncurses_instr - Reads string from terminal screen

SYNOPSIS
       int ncurses_instr (string  &$buffer)

DESCRIPTION
       Warning

	      This  function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in
	      a future release of PHP. This function should be used at your own risk.

	Reads a string from the terminal screen and returns the number of characters read from the current character position until end of line.

PARAMETERS
	      o $buffer
		- The characters. Attributes will be stripped.

RETURN VALUES
	Returns the number of characters.

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