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fmt_ip6c(3)						     Library Functions Manual						       fmt_ip6c(3)

NAME
       fmt_ip6c - write a formatted ASCII representation of an IPv6 number

SYNTAX
       #include <ip6.h>

       unsigned int fmt_ip6c(char *dest,const char ip[16]);

DESCRIPTION
       fmt_ip6c formats an IPv6 number in ASCII representation from ip and writes the result into dest. It returns the number of bytes written.

       fmt_ip6c will apply "::" compression to the output.

       If ip is an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address, fmt_ip6c will output it as IPv4 address.

       If dest equals FMT_LEN (i.e. is zero), fmt_ip6c returns the number of bytes it would have written.

       fmt_ip6c does not append .

       For convenience, ip6.h defines the integer IP6_FMT to be big enough to contain every possible fmt_ip6c output plus .

EXAMPLE
       #include <ip6.h>

	 char buf[IP6_FMT];
	 char ip[16];
	 buf[fmt_ip6c(buf,ip)]=0;

SEE ALSO
       fmt_ip6(3), fmt_ip6ifc(3), scan_ip6(3), fmt_ip4(3)

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