22 General utilities library [utilities]

22.14 Formatting [format]

22.14.7 Formatting of ranges [format.range]

22.14.7.2 Class template range_formatter [format.range.formatter]

namespace std { template<class T, class charT = char> requires same_as<remove_cvref_t<T>, T> && formattable<T, charT> class range_formatter { formatter<T, charT> underlying_; // exposition only basic_string_view<charT> separator_ = STATICALLY-WIDEN<charT>(", "); // exposition only basic_string_view<charT> opening-bracket_ = STATICALLY-WIDEN<charT>("["); // exposition only basic_string_view<charT> closing-bracket_ = STATICALLY-WIDEN<charT>("]"); // exposition only public: constexpr void set_separator(basic_string_view<charT> sep) noexcept; constexpr void set_brackets(basic_string_view<charT> opening, basic_string_view<charT> closing) noexcept; constexpr formatter<T, charT>& underlying() noexcept { return underlying_; } constexpr const formatter<T, charT>& underlying() const noexcept { return underlying_; } template<class ParseContext> constexpr typename ParseContext::iterator parse(ParseContext& ctx); template<ranges::input_range R, class FormatContext> requires formattable<ranges::range_reference_t<R>, charT> && same_as<remove_cvref_t<ranges::range_reference_t<R>>, T> typename FormatContext::iterator format(R&& r, FormatContext& ctx) const; }; }

The class template range_formatter is a utility for implementing formatter specializations for range types.

range_formatter interprets format-spec as a range-format-spec.

The syntax of format specifications is as follows:

range-format-spec:
range-fill-and-align

_{o p t}

width

_{o p t}

_{o p t}

range-type

_{o p t}

range-underlying-spec

_{o p t}

range-fill-and-align:
range-fill

_{o p t}

align

range-fill:
any character other than { or } or :

range-type:
m
s
?s

range-underlying-spec:
: format-spec

For range_formatter<T, charT>, the format-spec in a range-underlying-spec, if any, is interpreted by formatter<T, charT>.

The range-fill-and-align is interpreted the same way as a fill-and-align ([format.string.std]).

The productions align and width are described in [format.string].

The n option causes the range to be formatted without the opening and closing brackets.

[Note 1:

This is equivalent to invoking set_brackets({}, {}).

— end note]

The range-type specifier changes the way a range is formatted, with certain options only valid with certain argument types.

The meaning of the various type options is as specified in Table 76 .

Table 76: Meaning of range-type options [tab:formatter.range.type]

🔗	Option	Requirements	Meaning
🔗	m	T shall be either a specialization of pair or a specialization of tuple such that tuple_size_v<T> is 2.	Indicates that the opening bracket should be "{", the closing bracket should be "}", the separator should be ", ", and each range element should be formatted as if m were specified for its tuple-type. [Note 2: If the n option is provided in addition to the m option, both the opening and closing brackets are still empty. — end note]
🔗	s	T shall be charT.	Indicates that the range should be formatted as a string.
🔗	?s	T shall be charT.	Indicates that the range should be formatted as an escaped string ([format.string.escaped]).

If the range-type is s or ?s, then there shall be no n option and no range-underlying-spec.

🔗

constexpr void set_separator(basic_string_view<charT> sep) noexcept;

Effects: Equivalent to: separator_ = sep;

🔗

constexpr void set_brackets(basic_string_view<charT> opening,
                            basic_string_view<charT> closing) noexcept;

Effects: Equivalent to: opening-bracket_ = opening; closing-bracket_ = closing;

🔗

template<class ParseContext>
  constexpr typename ParseContext::iterator
    parse(ParseContext& ctx);

Effects: Parses the format specifiers as a range-format-spec and stores the parsed specifiers in *this.

Calls underlying_.parse(ctx) to parse format-spec in range-format-spec or, if the latter is not present, an empty format-spec.

The values of opening-bracket_, closing-bracket_, and separator_ are modified if and only if required by the range-type or the n option, if present.

If:

(9.1)
the range-type is neither s nor ?s,
(9.2)
underlying_.set_debug_format() is a valid expression, and
(9.3)
there is no range-underlying-spec,

then calls underlying_.set_debug_format().

Returns: An iterator past the end of the range-format-spec.

🔗

template<ranges::input_range R, class FormatContext>
    requires formattable<ranges::range_reference_t<R>, charT> &&
             same_as<remove_cvref_t<ranges::range_reference_t<R>>, T>
  typename FormatContext::iterator
    format(R&& r, FormatContext& ctx) const;

Effects: Writes the following into ctx.out(), adjusted according to the range-format-spec:

(11.1)
If the range-type was s, then as if by formatting basic_string<charT>(from_range, r).
(11.2)
Otherwise, if the range-type was ?s, then as if by formatting basic_string<charT>(from_range, r) as an escaped string ([format.string.escaped]).
(11.3)
Otherwise,
- (11.3.1)
  opening-bracket_,
- (11.3.2)
  for each element e of the range r:
  - (11.3.2.1)
    the result of writing e via underlying_ and
  - (11.3.2.2)
    separator_, unless e is the last element of r, and
- (11.3.3)
  closing-bracket_.

Returns: An iterator past the end of the output range.