VistaIOWriteEdges(3)

💾 VistaIOWriteEdges — bestie edition 💾

okay so picture this: you're in the Library Functions Manual section of the man pages (that's the (3) vibe, iykyk) and you just wanna dump a whole bunch of edge sets into a stream. that's literally it. that's the whole girl. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

VistaIOWriteEdges — write a series of edge sets to a stream 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <stdio>
#include <vistaio.h>
#include <vistaio.h>

VistaIOBoolean VistaIOWriteEdges (file, attributes, nedges, edges)
       FILE *file;
       VistaIOAttrList attributes;
       int nedges;
       VistaIOEdges edges[nedges];

not me spotting <vistaio.h> listed twice — yeah, that's literally how it is in the original, so I'm keeping it exactly like that, no cap. 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• file — the open stream you want the edges written to. like, the destination, bestie. 🌈
• attributes — a list of attributes that get written to the stream too. 🍓
• nedges — how many edge sets you're writing. the count. the number. the receipts. 🔢
• edges — the actual edge sets being written. the main characters, honestly. 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

VistaIOWriteEdges writes a series of edge sets to an open stream as a Vista data file. 💾✨

so here's the order, and the order matters: the edge sets edges[0] through edges[nedges - 1] get written, and then any attributes in the attributes list come after them. edges first, attributes after. periodt. 🎀

and the tea on attributes: it can totally be NULL if you're only writing edge sets and nothing else. so if it's just edges, you're fine, no worries. 💅

🫶 RETURN VALUES 🫶

VistaIOWriteEdges returns TRUE if it succeeded and FALSE otherwise. 🌟

okay but real talk — if there's an error, the data written to the stream may be incomplete. so like, don't trust a half-written stream, bestie. check that return value. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• VistaIOWriteFile(3)
• VistaIOWriteObjects(3)
• stdio(3)
• VistaIOEdges(3)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

David Lowe <lowe@cs.ubc.ca> 💜

Adaption to vistaio: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@gmail.com> ✨

and that's the whole page, babe — this was VistaIO Version 1.2.14, dated 24 April 1993, which is iconic in a vintage kinda way. slay, go write those edges. 💅🌈💖