(**************************************************************************) (* *) (* OCaml *) (* *) (* Pierre Weis, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *) (* en Automatique. *) (* *) (* All rights reserved. This file is distributed under the terms of *) (* the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the *) (* special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE. *) (* *) (**************************************************************************) (* TEZOS CHANGES * import version 4.03.0 * Removed channel functions * Removed toplevel effect based functions * Removed deprecated functions *) (** Pretty printing. This module implements a pretty-printing facility to format values within 'pretty-printing boxes'. The pretty-printer splits lines at specified break hints, and indents lines according to the box structure. For a gentle introduction to the basics of pretty-printing using [Format], read {{:http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/format.en.html} http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/format.en.html}. You may consider this module as providing an extension to the [printf] facility to provide automatic line splitting. The addition of pretty-printing annotations to your regular [printf] formats gives you fancy indentation and line breaks. Pretty-printing annotations are described below in the documentation of the function {!Format.fprintf}. You may also use the explicit box management and printing functions provided by this module. This style is more basic but more verbose than the [fprintf] concise formats. For instance, the sequence [open_box 0; print_string "x ="; print_space (); print_int 1; close_box (); print_newline ()] that prints [x = 1] within a pretty-printing box, can be abbreviated as [printf "@[%s@ %i@]@." "x =" 1], or even shorter [printf "@[x =@ %i@]@." 1]. Rule of thumb for casual users of this library: - use simple boxes (as obtained by [open_box 0]); - use simple break hints (as obtained by [print_cut ()] that outputs a simple break hint, or by [print_space ()] that outputs a space indicating a break hint); - once a box is opened, display its material with basic printing functions (e. g. [print_int] and [print_string]); - when the material for a box has been printed, call [close_box ()] to close the box; - at the end of your routine, flush the pretty-printer to display all the remaining material, e.g. evaluate [print_newline ()]. The behaviour of pretty-printing commands is unspecified if there is no opened pretty-printing box. Each box opened via one of the [open_] functions below must be closed using [close_box] for proper formatting. Otherwise, some of the material printed in the boxes may not be output, or may be formatted incorrectly. In case of interactive use, the system closes all opened boxes and flushes all pending text (as with the [print_newline] function) after each phrase. Each phrase is therefore executed in the initial state of the pretty-printer. Warning: the material output by the following functions is delayed in the pretty-printer queue in order to compute the proper line splitting. Hence, you should not mix calls to the printing functions of the basic I/O system with calls to the functions of this module: this could result in some strange output seemingly unrelated with the evaluation order of printing commands. *) (** {6 Multiple formatted output} *) type formatter;; (** Abstract data corresponding to a pretty-printer (also called a formatter) and all its machinery. Defining new pretty-printers permits unrelated output of material in parallel on several output channels. All the parameters of a pretty-printer are local to this pretty-printer: margin, maximum indentation limit, maximum number of boxes simultaneously opened, ellipsis, and so on, are specific to each pretty-printer and may be fixed independently. Given a [Pervasives.out_channel] output channel [oc], a new formatter writing to that channel is simply obtained by calling [formatter_of_out_channel oc]. Alternatively, the [make_formatter] function allocates a new formatter with explicit output and flushing functions (convenient to output material to strings for instance). *) val formatter_of_buffer : Buffer.t -> formatter (** [formatter_of_buffer b] returns a new formatter writing to buffer [b]. As usual, the formatter has to be flushed at the end of pretty printing, using [pp_print_flush] or [pp_print_newline], to display all the pending material. *) val make_formatter : (string -> int -> int -> unit) -> (unit -> unit) -> formatter (** [make_formatter out flush] returns a new formatter that writes according to the output function [out], and the flushing function [flush]. For instance, a formatter to the [Pervasives.out_channel] [oc] is returned by [make_formatter (Pervasives.output oc) (fun () -> Pervasives.flush oc)]. *) (** {6 Basic functions to use with formatters} *) val pp_open_hbox : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_open_vbox : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_open_hvbox : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_open_hovbox : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_open_box : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_close_box : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_open_tag : formatter -> string -> unit val pp_close_tag : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_print_string : formatter -> string -> unit val pp_print_as : formatter -> int -> string -> unit val pp_print_int : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_print_float : formatter -> float -> unit val pp_print_char : formatter -> char -> unit val pp_print_bool : formatter -> bool -> unit val pp_print_break : formatter -> int -> int -> unit val pp_print_cut : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_print_space : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_force_newline : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_print_flush : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_print_newline : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_print_if_newline : formatter -> unit -> unit val pp_set_tags : formatter -> bool -> unit val pp_set_print_tags : formatter -> bool -> unit val pp_set_mark_tags : formatter -> bool -> unit val pp_get_print_tags : formatter -> unit -> bool val pp_get_mark_tags : formatter -> unit -> bool val pp_set_margin : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_get_margin : formatter -> unit -> int val pp_set_max_indent : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_get_max_indent : formatter -> unit -> int val pp_set_max_boxes : formatter -> int -> unit val pp_get_max_boxes : formatter -> unit -> int val pp_over_max_boxes : formatter -> unit -> bool val pp_set_ellipsis_text : formatter -> string -> unit val pp_get_ellipsis_text : formatter -> unit -> string (** {6 Convenience formatting functions.} *) val pp_print_list: ?pp_sep:(formatter -> unit -> unit) -> (formatter -> 'a -> unit) -> (formatter -> 'a list -> unit) (** [pp_print_list ?pp_sep pp_v ppf l] prints items of list [l], using [pp_v] to print each item, and calling [pp_sep] between items ([pp_sep] defaults to {!pp_print_cut}). Does nothing on empty lists. @since 4.02.0 *) val pp_print_text : formatter -> string -> unit (** [pp_print_text ppf s] prints [s] with spaces and newlines respectively printed with {!pp_print_space} and {!pp_force_newline}. @since 4.02.0 *) (** {6 [printf] like functions for pretty-printing.} *) val fprintf : formatter -> ('a, formatter, unit) format -> 'a (** [fprintf ff fmt arg1 ... argN] formats the arguments [arg1] to [argN] according to the format string [fmt], and outputs the resulting string on the formatter [ff]. The format [fmt] is a character string which contains three types of objects: plain characters and conversion specifications as specified in the [Printf] module, and pretty-printing indications specific to the [Format] module. The pretty-printing indication characters are introduced by a [@] character, and their meanings are: - [@\[]: open a pretty-printing box. The type and offset of the box may be optionally specified with the following syntax: the [<] character, followed by an optional box type indication, then an optional integer offset, and the closing [>] character. Box type is one of [h], [v], [hv], [b], or [hov]. '[h]' stands for an 'horizontal' box, '[v]' stands for a 'vertical' box, '[hv]' stands for an 'horizontal-vertical' box, '[b]' stands for an 'horizontal-or-vertical' box demonstrating indentation, '[hov]' stands a simple 'horizontal-or-vertical' box. For instance, [@\[] opens an 'horizontal-or-vertical' box with indentation 2 as obtained with [open_hovbox 2]. For more details about boxes, see the various box opening functions [open_*box]. - [@\]]: close the most recently opened pretty-printing box. - [@,]: output a 'cut' break hint, as with [print_cut ()]. - [@ ]: output a 'space' break hint, as with [print_space ()]. - [@;]: output a 'full' break hint as with [print_break]. The [nspaces] and [offset] parameters of the break hint may be optionally specified with the following syntax: the [<] character, followed by an integer [nspaces] value, then an integer [offset], and a closing [>] character. If no parameters are provided, the good break defaults to a 'space' break hint. - [@.]: flush the pretty printer and split the line, as with [print_newline ()]. - [@]: print the following item as if it were of length [n]. Hence, [printf "@<0>%s" arg] prints [arg] as a zero length string. If [@] is not followed by a conversion specification, then the following character of the format is printed as if it were of length [n]. - [@\{]: open a tag. The name of the tag may be optionally specified with the following syntax: the [<] character, followed by an optional string specification, and the closing [>] character. The string specification is any character string that does not contain the closing character ['>']. If omitted, the tag name defaults to the empty string. For more details about tags, see the functions [open_tag] and [close_tag]. - [@\}]: close the most recently opened tag. - [@?]: flush the pretty printer as with [print_flush ()]. This is equivalent to the conversion [%!]. - [@\n]: force a newline, as with [force_newline ()], not the normal way of pretty-printing, you should prefer using break hints inside a vertical box. Note: If you need to prevent the interpretation of a [@] character as a pretty-printing indication, you must escape it with a [%] character. Old quotation mode [@@] is deprecated since it is not compatible with formatted input interpretation of character ['@']. Example: [printf "@[%s@ %d@]@." "x =" 1] is equivalent to [open_box (); print_string "x ="; print_space (); print_int 1; close_box (); print_newline ()]. It prints [x = 1] within a pretty-printing 'horizontal-or-vertical' box. *) val sprintf : ('a, unit, string) format -> 'a (** Same as [printf] above, but instead of printing on a formatter, returns a string containing the result of formatting the arguments. Note that the pretty-printer queue is flushed at the end of {e each call} to [sprintf]. In case of multiple and related calls to [sprintf] to output material on a single string, you should consider using [fprintf] with the predefined formatter [str_formatter] and call [flush_str_formatter ()] to get the final result. Alternatively, you can use [Format.fprintf] with a formatter writing to a buffer of your own: flushing the formatter and the buffer at the end of pretty-printing returns the desired string. *) val asprintf : ('a, formatter, unit, string) format4 -> 'a (** Same as [printf] above, but instead of printing on a formatter, returns a string containing the result of formatting the arguments. The type of [asprintf] is general enough to interact nicely with [%a] conversions. @since 4.01.0 *) val ifprintf : formatter -> ('a, formatter, unit) format -> 'a (** Same as [fprintf] above, but does not print anything. Useful to ignore some material when conditionally printing. @since 3.10.0 *) (** Formatted output functions with continuations. *) val kfprintf : (formatter -> 'a) -> formatter -> ('b, formatter, unit, 'a) format4 -> 'b (** Same as [fprintf] above, but instead of returning immediately, passes the formatter to its first argument at the end of printing. *) val ikfprintf : (formatter -> 'a) -> formatter -> ('b, formatter, unit, 'a) format4 -> 'b (** Same as [kfprintf] above, but does not print anything. Useful to ignore some material when conditionally printing. @since 3.12.0 *) val ksprintf : (string -> 'a) -> ('b, unit, string, 'a) format4 -> 'b (** Same as [sprintf] above, but instead of returning the string, passes it to the first argument. *) val kasprintf : (string -> 'a) -> ('b, formatter, unit, 'a) format4 -> 'b (** Same as [asprintf] above, but instead of returning the string, passes it to the first argument. @since 4.03 *)