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Diffstat (limited to 'libgo/go/fmt/doc.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | libgo/go/fmt/doc.go | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go b/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go index a9b9c9d0c27a..ff947b68a746 100644 --- a/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go +++ b/libgo/go/fmt/doc.go @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ %X base 16, with upper-case letters for A-F %U Unicode format: U+1234; same as "U+%04X" Floating-point and complex constituents: - %b decimalless scientific notation with exponent a power of two, - in the manner of strconv.FormatFloat with the 'b' format, + %b decimalless scientific notation with exponent a power of two, + in the manner of strconv.FormatFloat with the 'b' format, e.g. -123456p-78 %e scientific notation, e.g. -1234.456e+78 %E scientific notation, e.g. -1234.456E+78 @@ -56,9 +56,12 @@ character '*', causing their values to be obtained from the next operand, which must be of type int. - For numeric values, width sets the width of the field and precision - sets the number of places after the decimal, if appropriate. For - example, the format %6.2f prints 123.45. + For numeric values, width sets the minimum width of the field and + precision sets the number of places after the decimal, if appropriate, + except that for %g/%G it sets the total number of digits. For example, + given 123.45 the format %6.2f prints 123.45 while %.4g prints 123.5. + The default precision for %e and %f is 6; for %g it is the smallest + number of digits necessary to identify the value uniquely. For strings, width is the minimum number of characters to output, padding with spaces if necessary, and precision is the maximum @@ -152,6 +155,7 @@ %T is not implemented %e %E %f %F %g %G are all equivalent and scan any floating point or complex value %s and %v on strings scan a space-delimited token + Flags # and + are not implemented. The familiar base-setting prefixes 0 (octal) and 0x (hexadecimal) are accepted when scanning integers without a |