Data.Text.Format.Heavy

This is the main module of text-format-heavy library.

In most cases, you need to import only this module, and probably also the Data.Text.Format.Heavy.Time module, if you want to format time/date values.

This package exports the format function and Format data type. The Format type implements the instance of IsString, so in the code you may use formatting strings as literals, if you enable OverloadedStrings extension.

Formatting strings syntax is based on Python's string.format() syntax.

The simple usage example is

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
module Main where

import Data.Time
import qualified Data.Text.Lazy.IO as TLIO
import Data.Text.Format.Heavy
import Data.Text.Format.Heavy.Time

main :: IO ()
main = do
  name <- getLine
  time <- getZonedTime
  TLIO.putStrLn $ format "Hello, {}! It is {:%H:%M:%S} now." (name, time)

Documentation

module Data.Text.Format.Heavy.Types

module Data.Text.Format.Heavy.Formats

module Data.Text.Format.Heavy.Build

module Data.Text.Format.Heavy.Instances