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Diffstat (limited to 'libgo/go/fmt/doc.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | libgo/go/fmt/doc.go | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go b/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go index ff947b68a74..2c925a42283 100644 --- a/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go +++ b/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go @@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ The default precision for %e and %f is 6; for %g it is the smallest number of digits necessary to identify the value uniquely. - For strings, width is the minimum number of characters to output, - padding with spaces if necessary, and precision is the maximum - number of characters to output, truncating if necessary. + For most values, width is the minimum number of characters to output, + padding the formatted form with spaces if necessary. + For strings, precision is the maximum number of characters to output, + truncating if necessary. Other flags: + always print a sign for numeric values; @@ -77,7 +78,12 @@ write e.g. U+0078 'x' if the character is printable for %U (%#U). ' ' (space) leave a space for elided sign in numbers (% d); put spaces between bytes printing strings or slices in hex (% x, % X) - 0 pad with leading zeros rather than spaces + 0 pad with leading zeros rather than spaces; + for numbers, this moves the padding after the sign + + Flags are ignored by verbs that do not expect them. + For example there is no alternate decimal format, so %#d and %d + behave identically. For each Printf-like function, there is also a Print function that takes no format and is equivalent to saying %v for every |
