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fmt_ip6_flat(3) 	    Library Functions Manual		 fmt_ip6_flat(3)

NAME
     fmt_ip6_flat - write a formatted ASCII representation of an IPv6 number

SYNTAX
     #include <libowfat/ip6.h>

     unsigned int fmt_ip6_flat(char *dest,const char ip[16]);

DESCRIPTION
     fmt_ip6_flat  formats an IPv6 number in a flat ASCII representation from ip
     and writes the result into dest. It returns the  number  of  bytes  written
     (always 32).

     This  representation  does not contain colons and is meant to be easily ma-
     chine-readable.  Use fmt_ip6  for	the  normal  (standard)  representation.
     This  function  is meant for places which use colons to separate fields and
     thus have problems interpreting the standard IPv6 notation.

     If dest equals FMT_LEN (i.e. is zero), fmt_ip6_flat returns the  number  of
     bytes it would have written.

     fmt_ip6_flat does not append \0.

     For convenience, ip6.h defines the integer IP6_FMT to be big enough to con-
     tain every possible fmt_ip6_flat output plus \0.

EXAMPLE
     #include <libowfat/ip6.h>

       char buf[IP6_FMT];
       char ip[16];
       buf[fmt_ip6_flat(buf,ip)]=0;

SEE ALSO
     scan_ip6_flat(3), fmt_ip6(3)

								 fmt_ip6_flat(3)

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