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An end-of-file condi- tion is represented by <STRONG>WEOF</STRONG>, as defined in <STRONG><wchar.h></STRONG>. The newline and end-of-line conditions are represented by the <STRONG>\n</STRONG> <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> value. In all instances, the end of the string is terminated by a null <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG>. The routine places re- sulting values in the area pointed to by <EM>wstr</EM>. The user's erase and kill characters are interpreted. If keypad mode is on for the window, <STRONG>KEY_LEFT</STRONG> and <STRONG>KEY_BACKSPACE</STRONG> are both considered equivalent to the user's kill character. Characters input are echoed only if <STRONG>echo</STRONG> is currently on. In that case, backspace is echoed as deletion of the pre- vious character (typically a left motion). The effect of <STRONG>wget_wstr</STRONG> is as though a series of calls to <STRONG>wget_wch</STRONG> were made. The effect of <STRONG>mvget_wstr</STRONG> is as though a call to <STRONG>move</STRONG> and then a series of calls to <STRONG>get_wch</STRONG> were made. The effect of <STRONG>mvwget_wstr</STRONG> is as though a call to <STRONG>wmove</STRONG> and then a series of calls to <STRONG>wget_wch</STRONG> were made. The <STRONG>getn_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvgetn_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwgetn_wstr</STRONG>, and <STRONG>wgetn_wstr</STRONG> functions are identical to the <STRONG>get_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvget_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwget_wstr</STRONG>, and <STRONG>wget_wstr</STRONG> functions, respectively, except that the <STRONG>*n_*</STRONG> versions read at most <EM>n</EM> characters, letting the application prevent overflow of the input buffer. </PRE> <H2>NOTES</H2><PRE> Using <STRONG>get_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvget_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwget_wstr</STRONG>, or <STRONG>wget_wstr</STRONG> to read a line that overflows the array pointed to by <STRONG>wstr</STRONG> causes undefined results. The use of <STRONG>getn_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvgetn_wstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwgetn_wstr</STRONG>, or <STRONG>wgetn_wstr</STRONG>, respectively, is recommended. These functions cannot return <STRONG>KEY_</STRONG> values because there is no way to distinguish a <STRONG>KEY_</STRONG> value from a valid <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> value. All of these routines except <STRONG>wgetn_wstr</STRONG> may be macros. </PRE> <H2>RETURN VALUES</H2><PRE> All of these functions return <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon successful comple- tion. Otherwise, they return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>. Functions using a window parameter return an error if it is null. <STRONG>wgetn_wstr</STRONG> returns an error if the associated call to <STRONG>wget_wch</STRONG> failed. </PRE> <H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE> These functions are described in The Single Unix Specifi- cation, Version 2. No error conditions are defined. This implementation returns ERR if the window pointer is null, or if the lower-level <STRONG>wget_wch</STRONG> call returns an ERR. In the latter case, an ERR return without other data is treated as an end-of-file condition, and the returned ar- ray contains a <STRONG>WEOF</STRONG> followed by a null <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG>. X/Open curses documents these functions to pass an array of <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG>, but all of the vendors implement this using <STRONG>wint_t</STRONG>. </PRE> <H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE> Functions: <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_get_wch.3x.html">curs_get_wch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_getstr.3x.html">curs_getstr(3x)</A></STRONG>. <STRONG><A HREF="curs_get_wstr.3x.html">curs_get_wstr(3x)</A></STRONG> </PRE> <HR> <ADDRESS> Man(1) output converted with <a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html">man2html</a> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>