printf style formatting

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Brucey (Posted 2007) [#1]

Have been after some good text formatting for ages, but haven't seen anything on the forums. Thought I'd put my new RegEx module to good use, so I threw together a new formatting module over the weekend which lets you format text and numbers in the C sprintf / printf style. Currently supported are %s, %d and %f, along with support for all the flags, width, precision stuff those conversion specifiers utilize. The module is pure BlitzMax, although it uses the RegEx module for pre-parsing the format string. (better to let something designed for the task do the hard work for you :-) As usual... it's free... is cross-platform... and comes fully documented with some examples. You can get it from my website : http://brucey.net/programming/blitz/index.php Comments, suggestions and bug reports are always appreciated. ( 'twas developed entirely on Linux using the GTK build of the Max IDE, with references to "man sprintf" :-)

assari (Posted 2007) [#2]

Your productivity is amazing. Thanks for sharing

grable (Posted 2007) [#3]

Damn, i just made something similar ;) Although i used C and its all in one function.. hehe Congrats anyway brucey, you must be a busy man!

Brucey (Posted 2007) [#4]

I considered C, but I don't like it. That and I like to see what Max is capable of - which is plenty, it would seem. :-)

Who was John Galt? (Posted 2007) [#5]

Nice one Brucey. Very useful.