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- <p><strong>{fmt}</strong> is an open-source formatting library providing a fast and safe
- alternative to C stdio and C++ iostreams.</p>
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- <div class="panel-heading">What users say:</div>
- <div class="panel-body">
- Thanks for creating this library. It’s been a hole in C++ for
- a long time. I’ve used both <code>boost::format</code> and
- <code>loki::SPrintf</code>, and neither felt like the right answer.
- This does.
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- <span id="format-api-intro"></span><h2>Format API<a class="headerlink" href="#format-api" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
- <p>The format API is similar in spirit to the C <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">printf</span></code> family of function but
- is safer, simpler and several times <a class="reference external" href="https://www.zverovich.net/2020/06/13/fast-int-to-string-revisited.html">faster</a>
- than common standard library implementations.
- The <a class="reference external" href="syntax.html">format string syntax</a> is similar to the one used by
- <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format">str.format</a> in
- Python:</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">std</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">string</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">s</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"The answer is {}."</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fmt::format</span></code> function returns a string “The answer is 42.”. You can use
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fmt::memory_buffer</span></code> to avoid constructing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">std::string</span></code>:</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">auto</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">out</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">memory_buffer</span><span class="p">();</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">format_to</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">std</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">back_inserter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">out</span><span class="p">),</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"For a moment, {} happened."</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"nothing"</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="k">auto</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">data</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">out</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">();</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// pointer to the formatted data</span>
- <span class="k">auto</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">size</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">out</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">size</span><span class="p">();</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// size of the formatted data</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fmt::print</span></code> function performs formatting and writes the result to a stream:</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">stderr</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"System error code = {}</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s">"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">errno</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>If you omit the file argument the function will print to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">stdout</span></code>:</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"Don't {}</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s">"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"panic"</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>The format API also supports positional arguments useful for localization:</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"I'd rather be {1} than {0}."</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"right"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"happy"</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>You can pass named arguments with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fmt::arg</span></code>:</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"Hello, {name}! The answer is {number}. Goodbye, {name}."</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="w"> </span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">arg</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"name"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"World"</span><span class="p">),</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">arg</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"number"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">));</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>If your compiler supports C++11 user-defined literals, the suffix <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_a</span></code> offers
- an alternative, slightly terser syntax for named arguments:</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">using</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">namespace</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="nn">literals</span><span class="p">;</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"Hello, {name}! The answer is {number}. Goodbye, {name}."</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"name"</span><span class="n">_a</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"World"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"number"</span><span class="n">_a</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- </section>
- <section id="safety">
- <span id="id1"></span><h2>Safety<a class="headerlink" href="#safety" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
- <p>The library is fully type safe, automatic memory management prevents buffer
- overflow, errors in format strings are reported using exceptions or at compile
- time. For example, the code</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"The answer is {:d}"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"forty-two"</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>throws the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">format_error</span></code> exception because the argument <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"forty-two"</span></code> is a
- string while the format code <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d</span></code> only applies to integers.</p>
- <p>The code</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">FMT_STRING</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"The answer is {:d}"</span><span class="p">),</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"forty-two"</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>reports a compile-time error on compilers that support relaxed <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">constexpr</span></code>.
- See <a class="reference external" href="api.html#compile-time-format-string-checks">here</a> for details.</p>
- <p>The following code</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>fmt::format("Cyrillic letter {}", L'\x42e');
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>produces a compile-time error because wide character <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">L'\x42e'</span></code> cannot be
- formatted into a narrow string. For comparison, writing a wide character to
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">std::ostream</span></code> results in its numeric value being written to the stream
- (i.e. 1070 instead of letter ‘ю’ which is represented by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">L'\x42e'</span></code> if we
- use Unicode) which is rarely desirable.</p>
- </section>
- <section id="compact-binary-code">
- <h2>Compact Binary Code<a class="headerlink" href="#compact-binary-code" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
- <p>The library produces compact per-call compiled code. For example
- (<a class="reference external" href="https://godbolt.org/g/TZU4KF">godbolt</a>),</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="cp">#include</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="cpf"><fmt/core.h></span><span class="cp"></span>
- <span class="kt">int</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="w"> </span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"The answer is {}."</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"></span>
- <span class="p">}</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>compiles to just</p>
- <div class="highlight-asm notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>main: # @main
- sub rsp, 24
- mov qword ptr [rsp], 42
- mov rcx, rsp
- mov edi, offset .L.str
- mov esi, 17
- mov edx, 1
- call fmt::v7::vprint(fmt::v7::basic_string_view<char>, fmt::v7::format_args)
- xor eax, eax
- add rsp, 24
- ret
- .L.str:
- .asciz "The answer is {}."
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- </section>
- <section id="portability">
- <span id="id2"></span><h2>Portability<a class="headerlink" href="#portability" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
- <p>The library is highly portable and relies only on a small set of C++11 features:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p>variadic templates</p></li>
- <li><p>type traits</p></li>
- <li><p>rvalue references</p></li>
- <li><p>decltype</p></li>
- <li><p>trailing return types</p></li>
- <li><p>deleted functions</p></li>
- <li><p>alias templates</p></li>
- </ul>
- <p>These are available in GCC 4.8, Clang 3.4, MSVC 19.0 (2015) and more recent
- compiler version. For older compilers use {fmt} <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases/tag/4.1.0">version 4.x</a> which is maintained and
- only requires C++98.</p>
- <p>The output of all formatting functions is consistent across platforms.
- For example,</p>
- <div class="highlight-c++ notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">fmt</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"{}"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">std</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">numeric_limits</span><span class="o"><</span><span class="kt">double</span><span class="o">>::</span><span class="n">infinity</span><span class="p">());</span><span class="w"></span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>always prints <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">inf</span></code> while the output of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">printf</span></code> is platform-dependent.</p>
- </section>
- <section id="ease-of-use">
- <span id="id3"></span><h2>Ease of Use<a class="headerlink" href="#ease-of-use" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
- <p>{fmt} has a small self-contained code base with the core library consisting of
- just three header files and no external dependencies.
- A permissive MIT <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt#license">license</a> allows
- using the library both in open-source and commercial projects.</p>
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