RLIB Programmers Manual - RLIB - SICOM Systems, Inc.

Chapter 4. Formatting
%W The week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the
first Monday as the first day of week 01.
%x The preferred date representation for the current locale without the time.
%X The preferred time representation for the current locale without the date.
%y The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99).
%Y The year as a decimal number including the century.
%z The time-zone as hour offset from GMT. Required to emit RFC822-conformant dates (using
"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"). (GNU)
%Z The time zone or name or abbreviation.
%+ The date and time in date(1) format. (TZ)
%% A literal ‘%’ character.
Money Format String (!$ format)
The money formatter is locale aware and will use appropriate symbols and formats for the designated
locale. It is a string in the form: %[=f ^ ( + ! -][fieldwidth][#leftprecision][.rightprecision][n
or i] [] indicates optional sections.
=f f is a character to use as the numeric fill character. Default is ’ ’.
^ ignore grouping if specified in the locale. This is usually thousands groupings.
( Put negative amounts in ().
+ Show + sign on positive numbers.
! Omit the currency symbol.
- Left justify all fields.
n Display in national format. Like: $1.25
i Display in international format. Like USD 1.25
%% represents a % sign within the format specification string.
Default Format Strings
For STRING it is "%s"
for NUMBER it is "%d"
for DATE it is "%m/%d/%Y"
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