#formatting #dynamic #run-time #safe #limited #dyn #string

dyn_formatting

A library provides limited Python-style safe dynamic (runtime) formatting support for Rust

2 stable releases

3.0.0 Jan 25, 2023
2.0.0 Jan 24, 2023
1.0.1 Jan 23, 2023

#19 in #limited

MIT license

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Dynamic Formatting README

Lightweight, dynamic, Python-styled string formatting (Only support String, {key} patterns). It only needs std to work.

Escape like {{ or }}.

Install

cargo add dyn_formatting@3.0.0

Examples

use dyn_formatting::dynamic_format;
assert_eq!(
    dynamic_format(
        "I'm {name}. I'm {age} years old now.",
        &[("name", "ABC"), ("age", "20")].into()
    ).unwrap(),
    "I'm ABC. I'm 20 years old now.".to_string()
);
use dyn_formatting::dynamic_format;
use std::collections::HashMap;
let value_age = (15).to_string(); // Make lifetime long enough
let dictionary = HashMap::from([
    ("age", value_age.as_str()),
]);
assert_eq!(
    dynamic_format("{{{age} }}{age}", &dictionary).unwrap(),
    "{15 }15"
)
use dyn_formatting::dynamic_format;
assert!(
    dynamic_format(
        "I'm {name}. I'm {age} years old now.",
        &[("name", "ABC")].into()
    ).is_err() // Key error
);
use dyn_formatting::dynamic_format;
assert!(
    dynamic_format(
        "I'm {name{name}}.",
        &[("name", "ABC")].into()
    ).is_err() // Token error: '{' unmatched.
);

No runtime deps