Displays formatted text.
SyntaxThe printf command uses a special format
string to output text and numbers. If you are using Eclipse for
DS-5, then you can use the set print double-format and set
print float-format commands to control the formatting
of values. It works in a similar way to the ANSI C standard library
function printf().
The message in format_string% characters in the
string, the message is written out and any arguments are ignored.
The % symbol is used to indicate the start of
an argument conversion specification.
The syntax of the specification is:
%[flag...][fieldwidth][precision]format
where:
flagAn optional conversion modification flag.
"-"result is left-justified
"#"result uses a conversion-dependent alternate form
"+"result includes a sign
" "result includes a leading space for positive values
"0"result is zero-padded
","result includes locale-specific grouping separator
"("result encloses negative numbers in parentheses.
fieldwidthAn optional minimum field width specified in decimal.
precisionAn optional precision specified in decimal, with a preceding
.(period character) to identify it.formatThe possible conversion specifier characters are:
- %
A literal
%character.- a, A, e, E, f, g, or G
Results in a decimal number formatted using scientific notation or floating point notation. The capital letter forms use a capital
Ein scientific notation rather than ane.- d,or u
Results in a decimal integer. d indicates a signed integer. u indicates an unsigned integer.
- h, H
Results in a Hexadecimal character in lower or upper case.
- x or X
Results in an unsigned Hexadecimal character in lower or upper case.
- o
Results in an octal integer.
- c or C
Results in a Unicode character in lower or upper case.
- s
Results in a string.
- b or B
Results in a string containing either "true" or "false" in lower or upper case.
- n
Results in a platform-specific line separator.
- t or T
Prefix for date and time conversion specifier characters. For example:
"%ta %tb %td %tT" results in "Sun Jul 20 16:17:00"
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