printf style formatting

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Have been after some good text formatting for ages, but haven't seen anything on the forums.


Thought I'd put my new RegEx module to good use, so I threw together a new formatting module over the weekend which lets you format text and numbers in the C sprintf / printf style.

Currently supported are %s, %d and %f, along with support for all the flags, width, precision stuff those conversion specifiers utilize.

The module is pure BlitzMax, although it uses the RegEx module for pre-parsing the format string. (better to let something designed for the task do the hard work for you :-)

As usual... it's free... is cross-platform... and comes fully documented with some examples.

You can get it from my website : http://brucey.net/programming/blitz/index.php


Comments, suggestions and bug reports are always appreciated.



( 'twas developed entirely on Linux using the GTK build of the Max IDE, with references to "man sprintf" :-)