Reads string from terminal screen

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# ncurses_instr

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5 < 5.3.0, PECL ncurses >= 1.0.0)

ncurses_instr — Reads string from terminal screen

### Description

int ncurses_instr ( string `&$buffer` )
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

`buffer`

  The characters. Attributes will be stripped.

### Return Values

Returns the number of characters.

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