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author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:45:43 +0000 |
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;;; format-spec.el --- functions for formatting arbitrary formatting strings ;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> ;; Keywords: tools ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;;; Code: (eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) (defun format-spec (format specification) "Return a string based on FORMAT and SPECIFICATION. FORMAT is a string containing `format'-like specs like \"bash %u %k\", while SPECIFICATION is an alist mapping from format spec characters to values." (with-temp-buffer (insert format) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (search-forward "%" nil t) (cond ;; Quoted percent sign. ((eq (char-after) ?%) (delete-char 1)) ;; Valid format spec. ((looking-at "\\([-0-9.]*\\)\\([a-zA-Z]\\)") (let* ((num (match-string 1)) (spec (string-to-char (match-string 2))) (val (cdr (assq spec specification)))) (delete-region (1- (match-beginning 0)) (match-end 0)) (unless val (error "Invalid format character: %s" spec)) (insert (format (concat "%" num "s") val)))) ;; Signal an error on bogus format strings. (t (error "Invalid format string")))) (buffer-string))) (defun format-spec-make (&rest pairs) "Return an alist suitable for use in `format-spec' based on PAIRS. PAIRS is a list where every other element is a character and a value, starting with a character." (let (alist) (while pairs (unless (cdr pairs) (error "Invalid list of pairs")) (push (cons (car pairs) (cadr pairs)) alist) (setq pairs (cddr pairs))) (nreverse alist))) (provide 'format-spec) ;;; format-spec.el ends here