ncurses_instr

Reads string from terminal screen

Description

int ncurses_instr ( string &$buffer )
Warning

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

Parameters

buffer

The characters. Attributes will be stripped.

Return Values

Returns the number of characters.