Formatting

We've seen that formatting is specified via a format string:

  • format!("{}", foo) -> "3735928559"
  • format!("0x{:X}", foo) -> "0xDEADBEEF"
  • format!("0o{:o}", foo) -> "0o33653337357"

The same variable (foo) can be formatted differently depending on which argument type is used: X vs o vs unspecified.

This formatting functionality is implemented via traits, and there is one trait for each argument type. The most common formatting trait is Display, which handles cases where the argument type is left unspecified: {} for instance.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

You can view a full list of formatting traits and their argument types in the std::fmt documentation.

Activity

Add an implementation of the fmt::Display trait for the Color struct above so that the output displays as:

RGB (128, 255, 90) 0x80FF5A RGB (0, 3, 254) 0x0003FE RGB (0, 0, 0) 0x000000

Two hints if you get stuck:

See also:

std::fmt