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+.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.19 2017/11/21 00:46:31 tom Exp $
+.TH scanw 3NCURSES ""
+.SH NAME
+\fBscanw\fR,
+\fBwscanw\fR,
+\fBmvscanw\fR,
+\fBmvwscanw\fR,
+\fBvwscanw\fR, \fBvw_scanw\fR \- convert formatted input from a \fBcurses\fR window
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fB#include <ncursesw/curses.h>\fR
+.sp
+\fBint scanw(char *fmt, ...);\fR
+.br
+\fBint wscanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, ...);\fR
+.br
+\fBint mvscanw(int y, int x, char *fmt, ...);\fR
+.br
+\fBint mvwscanw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, char *fmt, ...);\fR
+.br
+\fBint vw_scanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
+.br
+\fBint vwscanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The \fBscanw\fR, \fBwscanw\fR and \fBmvscanw\fR routines are analogous to
+\fBscanf\fR [see \fBscanf\fR(3)]. The effect of these routines is as though
+\fBwgetstr\fR were called on the window, and the resulting line used as input
+for \fBsscanf\fR(3). Fields which do not map to a variable in the \fIfmt\fR
+field are lost.
+.PP
+The \fBvwscanw\fR and \fBvw_scanw\fR routines are analogous to \fBvscanf\fR(3).
+They perform a \fBwscanw\fR using a variable argument list.
+The third argument is a \fIva_list\fR,
+a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in \fB<stdarg.h>\fR.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+\fBvwscanw\fR returns \fBERR\fR on failure and an integer equal to the
+number of fields scanned on success.
+.PP
+Applications may use the return value from the \fBscanw\fR, \fBwscanw\fR,
+\fBmvscanw\fR and \fBmvwscanw\fR routines to determine the number of fields
+which were mapped in the call.
+.PP
+Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
+\fBwmove\fP, and return an error if the position is outside the window,
+or if the window pointer is null.
+.SH PORTABILITY
+The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. The function
+\fBvwscanw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function
+\fBvw_scanw\fR using the \fB<stdarg.h>\fR interface.
+The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that
+\fBvw_scanw\fR is preferred to \fBvwscanw\fR since the latter requires
+including \fB<varargs.h>\fR, which
+cannot be used in the same file as \fB<stdarg.h>\fR.
+This implementation uses \fB<stdarg.h>\fR for both, because that header
+is included in \fB<curses.h\fR>.
+.LP
+Both XSI and The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 state that these
+functions return \fBERR\fP or \fBOK\fP.
+Since the underlying \fBscanf\fR(3) can return the number of items scanned,
+and the SVr4 code was documented to use this feature,
+this is probably an editing error which was introduced in XSI,
+rather than being done intentionally.
+Portable applications should only test if the return value is \fBERR\fP,
+since the \fBOK\fP value (zero) is likely to be misleading.
+One possible way to get useful results would be to use a "%n" conversion
+at the end of the format string to ensure that something was processed.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+\fBncurses\fR(3NCURSES), \fBgetstr\fR(3NCURSES), \fBprintw\fR(3NCURSES), \fBscanf\fR(3)