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ugetx(3alleg4) Allegro manual ugetx(3alleg4)

ugetx, ugetxc - Low level helper function for reading Unicode text data. Allegro game programming library.

#include <allegro.h>

int ugetx(char **s);

int ugetxc(const char **s);

Low level helper function for reading Unicode text data. ugetxc is provided for working with pointer-to-pointer-to-const char data. Example:


char *p = string;
int first_letter, second_letter, third_letter;
first_letter = ugetx(&p);
second_letter = ugetx(&p);
third_letter = ugetx(&p);

Returns the character pointed to by `s' in the current encoding format, and advances the pointer to the next character after the one just returned.

ugetc(3alleg4), usetc(3alleg4), uwidth(3alleg4), ucwidth(3alleg4), uisok(3alleg4)

version 4.4.3 Allegro