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+.. _string-formatting-api:
+
+*************
+API Reference
+*************
+
+The {fmt} library API consists of the following parts:
+
+* :ref:`fmt/core.h <core-api>`: the core API providing argument handling
+ facilities and a lightweight subset of formatting functions
+* :ref:`fmt/format.h <format-api>`: the full format API providing compile-time
+ format string checks, wide string, output iterator and user-defined type
+ support
+* :ref:`fmt/ranges.h <ranges-api>`: additional formatting support for ranges
+ and tuples
+* :ref:`fmt/chrono.h <chrono-api>`: date and time formatting
+* :ref:`fmt/ostream.h <ostream-api>`: ``std::ostream`` support
+* :ref:`fmt/printf.h <printf-api>`: ``printf`` formatting
+
+All functions and types provided by the library reside in namespace ``fmt`` and
+macros have prefix ``FMT_``.
+
+.. _core-api:
+
+Core API
+========
+
+``fmt/core.h`` defines the core API which provides argument handling facilities
+and a lightweight subset of formatting functions. In the header-only mode
+include ``fmt/format.h`` instead of ``fmt/core.h``.
+
+The following functions use :ref:`format string syntax <syntax>`
+similar to that of Python's `str.format
+<http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_.
+They take *format_str* and *args* as arguments.
+
+*format_str* is a format string that contains literal text and replacement
+fields surrounded by braces ``{}``. The fields are replaced with formatted
+arguments in the resulting string. A function taking *format_str* doesn't
+participate in an overload resolution if the latter is not a string.
+
+*args* is an argument list representing objects to be formatted.
+
+.. _format:
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: format(const S&, Args&&...)
+.. doxygenfunction:: vformat(const S&, basic_format_args<buffer_context<type_identity_t<Char>>>)
+
+.. _print:
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: print(const S&, Args&&...)
+.. doxygenfunction:: vprint(string_view, format_args)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: print(std::FILE *, const S&, Args&&...)
+.. doxygenfunction:: vprint(std::FILE *, string_view, format_args)
+
+Named Arguments
+---------------
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::arg(const S&, const T&)
+
+Named arguments are not supported in compile-time checks at the moment.
+
+Argument Lists
+--------------
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::make_format_args(const Args&...)
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::format_arg_store
+ :members:
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::dynamic_format_arg_store
+ :members:
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::basic_format_args
+ :members:
+
+.. doxygenstruct:: fmt::format_args
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::basic_format_arg
+ :members:
+
+Compatibility
+-------------
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::basic_string_view
+ :members:
+
+.. doxygentypedef:: fmt::string_view
+.. doxygentypedef:: fmt::wstring_view
+
+Locale
+------
+
+All formatting is locale-independent by default. Use the ``'n'`` format
+specifier to insert the appropriate number separator characters from the
+locale::
+
+ #include <fmt/core.h>
+ #include <locale>
+
+ std::locale::global(std::locale("en_US.UTF-8"));
+ auto s = fmt::format("{:L}", 1000000); // s == "1,000,000"
+
+.. _format-api:
+
+Format API
+==========
+
+``fmt/format.h`` defines the full format API providing compile-time format
+string checks, wide string, output iterator and user-defined type support.
+
+Compile-time Format String Checks
+---------------------------------
+
+Compile-time checks are supported for built-in and string types as well as
+user-defined types with ``constexpr`` ``parse`` functions in their ``formatter``
+specializations.
+
+.. doxygendefine:: FMT_STRING
+
+Formatting User-defined Types
+-----------------------------
+
+To make a user-defined type formattable, specialize the ``formatter<T>`` struct
+template and implement ``parse`` and ``format`` methods::
+
+ #include <fmt/format.h>
+
+ struct point { double x, y; };
+
+ template <>
+ struct fmt::formatter<point> {
+ // Presentation format: 'f' - fixed, 'e' - exponential.
+ char presentation = 'f';
+
+ // Parses format specifications of the form ['f' | 'e'].
+ constexpr auto parse(format_parse_context& ctx) {
+ // [ctx.begin(), ctx.end()) is a character range that contains a part of
+ // the format string starting from the format specifications to be parsed,
+ // e.g. in
+ //
+ // fmt::format("{:f} - point of interest", point{1, 2});
+ //
+ // the range will contain "f} - point of interest". The formatter should
+ // parse specifiers until '}' or the end of the range. In this example
+ // the formatter should parse the 'f' specifier and return an iterator
+ // pointing to '}'.
+
+ // Parse the presentation format and store it in the formatter:
+ auto it = ctx.begin(), end = ctx.end();
+ if (it != end && (*it == 'f' || *it == 'e')) presentation = *it++;
+
+ // Check if reached the end of the range:
+ if (it != end && *it != '}')
+ throw format_error("invalid format");
+
+ // Return an iterator past the end of the parsed range:
+ return it;
+ }
+
+ // Formats the point p using the parsed format specification (presentation)
+ // stored in this formatter.
+ template <typename FormatContext>
+ auto format(const point& p, FormatContext& ctx) {
+ // ctx.out() is an output iterator to write to.
+ return format_to(
+ ctx.out(),
+ presentation == 'f' ? "({:.1f}, {:.1f})" : "({:.1e}, {:.1e})",
+ p.x, p.y);
+ }
+ };
+
+Then you can pass objects of type ``point`` to any formatting function::
+
+ point p = {1, 2};
+ std::string s = fmt::format("{:f}", p);
+ // s == "(1.0, 2.0)"
+
+You can also reuse existing formatters via inheritance or composition, for
+example::
+
+ enum class color {red, green, blue};
+
+ template <> struct fmt::formatter<color>: formatter<string_view> {
+ // parse is inherited from formatter<string_view>.
+ template <typename FormatContext>
+ auto format(color c, FormatContext& ctx) {
+ string_view name = "unknown";
+ switch (c) {
+ case color::red: name = "red"; break;
+ case color::green: name = "green"; break;
+ case color::blue: name = "blue"; break;
+ }
+ return formatter<string_view>::format(name, ctx);
+ }
+ };
+
+Since ``parse`` is inherited from ``formatter<string_view>`` it will recognize
+all string format specifications, for example
+
+.. code-block:: c++
+
+ fmt::format("{:>10}", color::blue)
+
+will return ``" blue"``.
+
+You can also write a formatter for a hierarchy of classes::
+
+ #include <type_traits>
+ #include <fmt/format.h>
+
+ struct A {
+ virtual ~A() {}
+ virtual std::string name() const { return "A"; }
+ };
+
+ struct B : A {
+ virtual std::string name() const { return "B"; }
+ };
+
+ template <typename T>
+ struct fmt::formatter<T, std::enable_if_t<std::is_base_of<A, T>::value, char>> :
+ fmt::formatter<std::string> {
+ template <typename FormatCtx>
+ auto format(const A& a, FormatCtx& ctx) {
+ return fmt::formatter<std::string>::format(a.name(), ctx);
+ }
+ };
+
+ int main() {
+ B b;
+ A& a = b;
+ fmt::print("{}", a); // prints "B"
+ }
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::basic_format_parse_context
+ :members:
+
+Output Iterator Support
+-----------------------
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::format_to(OutputIt, const S&, Args&&...)
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::format_to_n(OutputIt, std::size_t, string_view, Args&&...)
+.. doxygenstruct:: fmt::format_to_n_result
+ :members:
+
+Literal-based API
+-----------------
+
+The following user-defined literals are defined in ``fmt/format.h``.
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: operator""_format(const char *, size_t)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: operator""_a(const char *, size_t)
+
+Utilities
+---------
+
+.. doxygenstruct:: fmt::is_char
+
+.. doxygentypedef:: fmt::char_t
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::formatted_size(string_view, const Args&...)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::to_string(const T&)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::to_wstring(const T&)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::to_string_view(const Char *)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::join(const Range&, string_view)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::join(It, It, string_view)
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::detail::buffer
+ :members:
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::basic_memory_buffer
+ :protected-members:
+ :members:
+
+System Errors
+-------------
+
+fmt does not use ``errno`` to communicate errors to the user, but it may call
+system functions which set ``errno``. Users should not make any assumptions about
+the value of ``errno`` being preserved by library functions.
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::system_error
+ :members:
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fmt::format_system_error
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::windows_error
+ :members:
+
+.. _formatstrings:
+
+Custom Allocators
+-----------------
+
+The {fmt} library supports custom dynamic memory allocators.
+A custom allocator class can be specified as a template argument to
+:class:`fmt::basic_memory_buffer`::
+
+ using custom_memory_buffer =
+ fmt::basic_memory_buffer<char, fmt::inline_buffer_size, custom_allocator>;
+
+It is also possible to write a formatting function that uses a custom
+allocator::
+
+ using custom_string =
+ std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, custom_allocator>;
+
+ custom_string vformat(custom_allocator alloc, fmt::string_view format_str,
+ fmt::format_args args) {
+ custom_memory_buffer buf(alloc);
+ fmt::vformat_to(buf, format_str, args);
+ return custom_string(buf.data(), buf.size(), alloc);
+ }
+
+ template <typename ...Args>
+ inline custom_string format(custom_allocator alloc,
+ fmt::string_view format_str,
+ const Args& ... args) {
+ return vformat(alloc, format_str, fmt::make_format_args(args...));
+ }
+
+The allocator will be used for the output container only. If you are using named
+arguments, the container that stores pointers to them will be allocated using
+the default allocator. Also floating-point formatting falls back on ``sprintf``
+which may do allocations.
+
+Custom Formatting of Built-in Types
+-----------------------------------
+
+It is possible to change the way arguments are formatted by providing a
+custom argument formatter class::
+
+ using arg_formatter = fmt::arg_formatter<fmt::buffer_range<char>>;
+
+ // A custom argument formatter that formats negative integers as unsigned
+ // with the ``x`` format specifier.
+ class custom_arg_formatter : public arg_formatter {
+ public:
+ custom_arg_formatter(fmt::format_context& ctx,
+ fmt::format_parse_context* parse_ctx = nullptr,
+ fmt::format_specs* spec = nullptr)
+ : arg_formatter(ctx, parse_ctx, spec) {}
+
+ using arg_formatter::operator();
+
+ auto operator()(int value) {
+ if (specs() && specs()->type == 'x')
+ return (*this)(static_cast<unsigned>(value)); // convert to unsigned and format
+ return arg_formatter::operator()(value);
+ }
+ };
+
+ std::string custom_vformat(fmt::string_view format_str, fmt::format_args args) {
+ fmt::memory_buffer buffer;
+ // Pass custom argument formatter as a template arg to vformat_to.
+ fmt::vformat_to<custom_arg_formatter>(buffer, format_str, args);
+ return fmt::to_string(buffer);
+ }
+
+ template <typename ...Args>
+ inline std::string custom_format(
+ fmt::string_view format_str, const Args&... args) {
+ return custom_vformat(format_str, fmt::make_format_args(args...));
+ }
+
+ std::string s = custom_format("{:x}", -42); // s == "ffffffd6"
+
+.. doxygenclass:: fmt::arg_formatter
+ :members:
+
+.. _ranges-api:
+
+Ranges and Tuple Formatting
+===========================
+
+The library also supports convenient formatting of ranges and tuples::
+
+ #include <fmt/ranges.h>
+
+ std::tuple<char, int, float> t{'a', 1, 2.0f};
+ // Prints "('a', 1, 2.0)"
+ fmt::print("{}", t);
+
+
+NOTE: currently, the overload of ``fmt::join`` for iterables exists in the main
+``format.h`` header, but expect this to change in the future.
+
+Using ``fmt::join``, you can separate tuple elements with a custom separator::
+
+ #include <fmt/ranges.h>
+
+ std::tuple<int, char> t = {1, 'a'};
+ // Prints "1, a"
+ fmt::print("{}", fmt::join(t, ", "));
+
+.. _chrono-api:
+
+Date and Time Formatting
+========================
+
+The library supports `strftime
+<http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/c/strftime>`_-like date and time
+formatting::
+
+ #include <fmt/chrono.h>
+
+ std::time_t t = std::time(nullptr);
+ // Prints "The date is 2016-04-29." (with the current date)
+ fmt::print("The date is {:%Y-%m-%d}.", fmt::localtime(t));
+
+The format string syntax is described in the documentation of
+`strftime <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/c/strftime>`_.
+
+.. _ostream-api:
+
+``std::ostream`` Support
+========================
+
+``fmt/ostream.h`` provides ``std::ostream`` support including formatting of
+user-defined types that have overloaded ``operator<<``::
+
+ #include <fmt/ostream.h>
+
+ class date {
+ int year_, month_, day_;
+ public:
+ date(int year, int month, int day): year_(year), month_(month), day_(day) {}
+
+ friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const date& d) {
+ return os << d.year_ << '-' << d.month_ << '-' << d.day_;
+ }
+ };
+
+ std::string s = fmt::format("The date is {}", date(2012, 12, 9));
+ // s == "The date is 2012-12-9"
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: print(std::basic_ostream<Char>&, const S&, Args&&...)
+
+.. _printf-api:
+
+``printf`` Formatting
+=====================
+
+The header ``fmt/printf.h`` provides ``printf``-like formatting functionality.
+The following functions use `printf format string syntax
+<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fprintf.html>`_ with
+the POSIX extension for positional arguments. Unlike their standard
+counterparts, the ``fmt`` functions are type-safe and throw an exception if an
+argument type doesn't match its format specification.
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: printf(const S&, const Args&...)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fprintf(std::FILE *, const S&, const Args&...)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: fprintf(std::basic_ostream<Char>&, const S&, const Args&...)
+
+.. doxygenfunction:: sprintf(const S&, const Args&...)