Formatted write. Format is an atom whose characters will be
printed.
Format may contain certain special character sequences which
specify certain formatting and substitution actions. Arguments
provides all the terms required to be output.
Escape sequences to generate a single special character:
\n | Output a newline character (see also nl/[0,1]) |
\l | Output a line separator (same as \n) |
\r | Output a carriage return character
(ASCII 13) |
\t | Output the ASCII character TAB (9) |
\\ | The character \ |
\% | The character % |
\nnn | where <nnn> is an
integer (1-3 digits); the character with code <nnn> is
output (NB : <nnn> is read as decimal) |
Note that \l, \nnn and \\ are
interpreted differently when character escapes are in effect. See
section 2.15.1.3.
Escape sequences to include arguments from Arguments. Each
time a
% escape sequence is found in Format the next argument from Arguments
is formatted according to the specification.
%t | print/1
the next item (mnemonic: term) |
%w | write/1
the next item |
%q | writeq/1
the next item |
%d | Write the term, ignoring operators. See
also
write_term/2.
Mnemonic: old Edinburgh display/1 |
%p | print/1
the next item (identical to %t) |
%n | Put the next item as a character (i.e.,
it is a character code) |
%r | Write the next item N times where N is
the second item (an integer) |
%s | Write the next item as a String (so it
must be a list of characters) |
%f | Perform a ttyflush/0
(no items used) |
%Nc | Write the next item Centered in N
columns |
%Nl | Write the next item Left justified in N
columns |
%Nr | Write the next item Right justified in N
columns.
N is a decimal number with at least one digit. The item must
be an atom, integer, float or string. |
Equivalent to writef/2,
but “writes” the result on String instead of the
current output stream. Example:
?- swritef(S, '%15L%w', ['Hello', 'World']).
S = "Hello World"
