NAME¶

fmt_ip6c - write a formatted ASCII representation of an IPv6 number

SYNTAX¶

#include <ip6.h> unsigned int fmt_ip6c(char *dest,const char ip[16]);

DESCRIPTION¶

fmt_ip6c formats an IPv6 number in ASCII representation from ip and writes the result into dest. It returns the number of bytes written. fmt_ip6c will apply "::" compression to the output. If ip is an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address, fmt_ip6c will output it as IPv4 address. If dest equals FMT_LEN (i.e. is zero), fmt_ip6c returns the number of bytes it would have written. fmt_ip6c does not append \0. For convenience, ip6.h defines the integer IP6_FMT to be big enough to contain every possible fmt_ip6c output plus \0.

EXAMPLE¶

#include <ip6.h>
char buf[IP6_FMT];
char ip[16];
buf[fmt_ip6c(buf,ip)]=0;

SEE ALSO¶

fmt_ip6(3), fmt_ip6ifc(3), scan_ip6(3), fmt_ip4(3)