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)

                                                                                      fmt_ip6c(3)