wherey

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Header File

conio.h

Category

Console I/O Routines

Prototype

int wherey(void);

Description

Gives vertical cursor position within window.

Note: Do not use this function in Win32 GUI applications.

wherey returns the y-coordinate of the current cursor position (within the current text window).

Return Value

wherey returns an integer in the range 1 to the number of rows in the current video mode.

Example

#include <conio.h>
int main(void)
{
   clrscr();
   gotoxy(10,10);
   cprintf(
     "Current location is X: %d  Y: %d\r\n", 
     wherex(), wherey());
   getch();
   return 0;
}

Portability

POSIX	Win32	ANSI C	ANSI C++
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