DPGETC(3NCARG)

✨ DPGETC ✨ (a lil page from the NCAR Graphics manual, section 3NCARG, bestie 💅)

okay so picture this: you're deep in Dashpack land, you set some parameter, and now you're like… "wait, what did I actually set it to??" DPGETC is the girl who tells you. She retrieves the current character value of an internal parameter. No cap. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

DPGETC — retrieves the current character value of an internal parameter. periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

CALL DPGETC (PNAM,CVAL)

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💜 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 💜

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

void c_dpgetc (char *pnam, char *cval, int len)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

• PNAM — an input constant or variable of type CHARACTER, and she specifies the name of the parameter you wanna get. 👑 Only the first three characters of the string matter, so the rest of the string is literally just free real estate — use it to document what the parameter is for. Like instead of just 'CRB', you can write 'CRB - CHARACTER REPRESENTING BREAK'. iconic behavior honestly. 💖
• CVAL — an output variable of type CHARACTER, and she's the variable that the value of the internal parameter specified by PNAM gets retrieved into. so like, that's where the answer lands. 🫶

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🌈 C-BINDING DESCRIPTION 🌈

the C-binding argument descriptions are the exact same as the FORTRAN argument descriptions, with one lil exception:

• len — the size of cval as dimensioned in the calling program. ✨

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💅 USAGE 💅

this routine lets you retrieve the current value of Dashpack parameters. and bestie, if you want the complete list of parameters available in this utility, go read the dashpack_params man page. iykyk. 🔥

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🎀 ACCESS 🎀

to use DPGETC or c_dpgetc, you gotta load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — and preferably in that order, okay? don't be chaotic about it. ⭐

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💀 MESSAGES 💀

for a description of all Dashpack error messages and/or informational messages, see the dashpack man page. (she's got the receipts. 📜)

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Online: dashpack, dashpack_params, dpcurv, dpdraw, dpfrst, dpgeti, dpgetr, dplast, dpline, dpsetc, dpseti, dpsetr, dpsmth, dpvect, ncarg_cbind.

Hardcopy: None. 💀 (not a single one, we're digital girlies only)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement. 📜✨

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okay that's the whole page!! 🦋 this one's from the UNIX manual, dated March 1995, and it lives under the name DPGETC(3NCARG) — so if you ever need to cite her, that's the glow-up signature. bye bestie, go retrieve some character values 💖🌸🎀