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Add docstring to string/format

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Ico Doornekamp 2023-05-22 19:19:54 +02:00
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@ -535,7 +535,30 @@ JANET_CORE_FN(cfun_string_join,
JANET_CORE_FN(cfun_string_format, JANET_CORE_FN(cfun_string_format,
"(string/format format & values)", "(string/format format & values)",
"Similar to C's `snprintf`, but specialized for operating with Janet values. Returns " "Similar to C's `snprintf`, but specialized for operating with Janet values. Returns "
"a new string.") { "a new string.\n\n"
"The following conversion specifiers are supported, where the upper case specifiers generate "
"upper case output:\n"
"- `c`: ASCII character.\n"
"- `d`, `i`: integer, formatted as a decimal number.\n"
"- `x`, `X`: integer, formatted as a hexadecimal number.\n"
"- `o`: integer, formatted as an octal number.\n"
"- `f`, `F`: floating point number, formatted as a decimal number.\n"
"- `e`, `E`: floating point number, formatted in scientific notation.\n"
"- `g`, `G`: floating point number, formatted in its shortest form.\n"
"- `a`, `A`: floating point number, formatted as a hexadecimal number.\n"
"- `s`: formatted as a string, precision indicates padding and maximum length.\n"
"- `t`: emit the type of the given value.\n"
"- `v`: format with (describe x)"
"- `V`: format with (string x)"
"- `j`: format to jdn (Janet data notation).\n"
"\n"
"The following conversion specifiers are used for \"pretty-printing\", where the upper-case "
"variants generate colored output. These speficiers can take a precision "
"argument to specify the maximum nesting depth to print.\n"
"- `p`, `P`: pretty format, truncating if necessary\n"
"- `m`, `M`: pretty format without truncating.\n"
"- `q`, `Q`: pretty format on one line, truncating if necessary.\n"
"- `n`, `N`: pretty format on one line without truncation.\n") {
janet_arity(argc, 1, -1); janet_arity(argc, 1, -1);
JanetBuffer *buffer = janet_buffer(0); JanetBuffer *buffer = janet_buffer(0);
const char *strfrmt = (const char *) janet_getstring(argv, 0); const char *strfrmt = (const char *) janet_getstring(argv, 0);