Copyright	(c) 2013 Chris Done 2013 Shachaf Ben-Kiki
License	BSD3
Maintainer	alex@farfromthere.net
Stability	experimental
Portability	GHC
Safe Haskell	None
Language	Haskell2010

Formatting

Contents

Top-level functions
Formatting library

Description

Combinator-based type-safe formatting (like printf() or FORMAT) for Text.

Example:

>>> format ("Person's name is " % text % ", age is " % hex) "Dave" 54

See Formatting.Formatters for a list of formatters. See Formatting.Combinators for a list of formatting combinators, for combining and altering formatters.

Synopsis

data Format r a
(%) :: Format r a -> Format r' r -> Format r' a
(%.) :: Format r (Builder -> r') -> Format r' a -> Format r a
now :: Builder -> Format r r
later :: (a -> Builder) -> Format r (a -> r)
mapf :: (a -> b) -> Format r (b -> t) -> Format r (a -> t)
runFormat :: Format r a -> (Builder -> r) -> a
format :: Format Text a -> a
sformat :: Format Text a -> a
bprint :: Format Builder a -> a
bformat :: Format Builder a -> a
fprint :: Format (IO ()) a -> a
fprintLn :: Format (IO ()) a -> a
hprint :: Handle -> Format (IO ()) a -> a
hprintLn :: Handle -> Format (IO ()) a -> a
formatToString :: Format String a -> a
module Formatting.Formatters
module Formatting.Combinators

Documentation

data Format r a Source #

A formatter. When you construct formatters the first type parameter, r, will remain polymorphic. The second type parameter, a, will change to reflect the types of the data that will be formatted. For example, in

myFormat :: Format r (Text -> Int -> r)
myFormat = "Person's name is " % text % ", age is " % hex

the first type parameter remains polymorphic, and the second type parameter is Text -> Int -> r, which indicates that it formats a Text and an Int.

When you run the Format, for example with format, you provide the arguments and they will be formatted into a string.

> format ("Person's name is " % text % ", age is " % hex) "Dave" 54
"Person's name is Dave, age is 36"

Instances

Functor (Format r) Source #	This can be used almost like contramap, e.g: formatter :: Format r (b -> r) formatter = _ adapter :: a -> b adapter = _ adapted :: Format r (a -> r) adapted = fmap (. adapter) formatter
Instance details Defined in Formatting.Internal Methods fmap :: (a -> b) -> Format r a -> Format r b # (<$) :: a -> Format r b -> Format r a #
Category Format Source #	The same as (%). At present using `Category` has an import overhead, but one day it might be imported as standard.
Instance details Defined in Formatting.Internal Methods id :: Format a a # (.) :: Format b c -> Format a b -> Format a c #
a ~ r => IsString (Format r a) Source #	Useful instance for writing format string. With this you can write `Foo` instead of `now "Foo!"`.
Instance details Defined in Formatting.Internal Methods fromString :: String -> Format r a #
Semigroup (Format r (a -> r)) Source #
Instance details Defined in Formatting.Internal Methods (<>) :: Format r (a -> r) -> Format r (a -> r) -> Format r (a -> r) # sconcat :: NonEmpty (Format r (a -> r)) -> Format r (a -> r) # stimes :: Integral b => b -> Format r (a -> r) -> Format r (a -> r) #
Monoid (Format r (a -> r)) Source #	Useful instance for applying two formatters to the same input argument. For example: `format (year <> "/" % month) now` will yield `"2015/01"`.
Instance details Defined in Formatting.Internal Methods mempty :: Format r (a -> r) # mappend :: Format r (a -> r) -> Format r (a -> r) -> Format r (a -> r) # mconcat :: [Format r (a -> r)] -> Format r (a -> r) #

(%) :: Format r a -> Format r' r -> Format r' a infixr 9 Source #

Concatenate two formatters.

formatter1 % formatter2 is a formatter that accepts arguments for formatter1 and formatter2 and concatenates their results. For example

format1 :: Format r (Text -> r)
format1 = "Person's name is " % text

format2 :: Format r r
format2 = ", "

format3 :: Format r (Int -> r)
format3 = "age is " % hex

myFormat :: Format r (Text -> Int -> r)
myFormat = format1 % format2 % format3

Notice how the argument types of format1 and format3 are gathered into the type of myFormat.

(This is actually the composition operator for Formats Category instance, but that is (at present) inconvenient to use with regular Prelude. So this function is provided as a convenience.)

(%.) :: Format r (Builder -> r') -> Format r' a -> Format r a infixr 8 Source #

Function compose two formatters. Will feed the result of one formatter into another.

now :: Builder -> Format r r Source #

Don't format any data, just output a constant Builder.

later :: (a -> Builder) -> Format r (a -> r) Source #

Format a value of type a using a function of type a -> Builder. For example, later (f :: Int -> Builder) produces Format r (Int -> r).

mapf :: (a -> b) -> Format r (b -> t) -> Format r (a -> t) Source #

Functorial map over a formatter's input. Example: format (mapf (drop 1) string) "hello"