Modifiers:

0

Zero pad numbers (implies right justification)

!

Toggle truncation

' ' (space)

pad positive integers with a space

+

pad positive integers with a plus sign

-

left adjusted within field size (default is right)

|

centered within field size

=

column mode if strings are greater than field size

/

Rough linebreak (break at exactly fieldsize instead of

between words)

#

table mode, print a list of '\n' separated word

(top-to-bottom order)

$

Inverse table mode (left-to-right order)

n

(where n is a number or *) a number specifies field size

.n

set precision

:n

set field size & precision

;n

Set column width

*

if n is a * then next argument is used

'X'

Set a pad string. ' cannot be a part of the pad_string (yet)

<

Use same arg again

^

repeat this on every line produced

@

do this format for each entry in argument array

>

Put the string at the bottom end of column instead of top

_

Set width to the length of data

Operators:

%%

percent

%d

signed decimal int

%u

unsigned decimal int (doesn't really exist in lpc)

%o

unsigned octal int

%x

lowercase unsigned hexadecimal int

%X

uppercase unsigned hexadecimal int

%c

char (or short with %2c, %3c gives 3 bytes etc.)

%f

float

%g

heruistically chosen representation of float

%e

exponential notation float

%s

string

%O

any type (debug style)

%n

nop

%t

type of argument

%<modifiers>{format%}

do a format for every index in an array.