------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- -- -- Formatted_Output package for Ada-95 brief documentation -- -- -- -- Author: -- -- Eugene Nonko, cm@liceum.secna.ru -- -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here to download Escape sequences in format strings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ `\n' - line feed `\r' - carriage return `\b' - backspace Format sequences for strings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %[<justification>][<width>]s <justification> is `+' - align to right (default) `-' - align to left `*' - centered <width> is decimal number specifying field width Examples: +"%s" & "Hello" "Hello" +"%9s" & "Hello" " Hello" +"%-7s" & "Hello" "Hello " +"%*11s" & "Hello" " Hello " Format sequences for enumeration types ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %[<justification>][<width>](c|u|l) <justification> is `+' - align to right (default) `-' - align to left `*' - centered <width> is decimal number specifying field width Format specifier can be `c' - convert capitalized `u' - convert in lower case `l' - convert in upper case Examples: +"%u" & Red "RED" +"%9u" & Red " RED" +"%-7c" & Red "Red " +"%*11l" & Red " red " Format sequences for integer and modular types ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %[<justification>][0][<width>](d|x|o|b) <justification> is `+' - align to right (default) `-' - align to left `*' - centered Specify `0' before width to pad field with leading zeroes <width> is decimal number specifying field width Format specifier can be `d' - convert as decimal `x' - convert as hexadecimal `o' - convert as octal `b' - convert as binary Examples: +"%d" & 123 "123" +"%d" & -123 "-123" +"%x" & 123 "7B" +"%b" & 123 "1111011" +"%8x" & 123 " 7B" +"%08x" & 123 "0000007B" +"%*07d" & 123 "00123 " +"%*08d" & -123 "-00123 " Format sequences for floating point types ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %[<justification>][0][<width>[.<width_aft>]](e|f|g) <justification> is `+' - align to right (default) `-' - align to left `*' - centered Specify `0' before width to pad field with leading zeroes <width> is decimal number specifying field width <width_aft> is decimal number specifying number of digits after decimal point Format specifier can be `e' - convert to exponential representation `f' - convert without exponent field `g' - convert to shortest representation without any trailing zeroes Examples: +"%e" & 1234.5 "1.23450E+03" +"%f" & 1234.5 "1234.50000" +"%g" & 1234.5 "1234.5" +"%10.3e" & 1234.5 " 1.235E+03" +"%10.3f" & 1234.5 " 1234.500" +"%10.3g" & 1234.5 " 1234.5" +"%010.3e" & 1234.5 "01.235E+03" +"%010.3f" & 1234.5 "001234.500" +"%010.3g" & 1234.5 "00001234.5"

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