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Format-bytes

This crate exposes a procedural macro that allows you to format bytestrings. For more background on why you would want to do that, read this article.

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
format-bytes = "0.2"

then use the macro like so:

use format_bytes::format_bytes;

fn main() {
    assert_eq!(
        format_bytes!(b"look at those {} bytes", &[0u8, 1, 2]),
        b"look at those \x00\x01\x02 bytes"
    );
}

See more examples of how it works on the documentation of format_bytes! itself.

Missing features

  • Named arguments, but they should be added in a future version
  • Python-like "f-string" functionality is not planned because of its more complex implementation and limited actual benefit
  • format!-like padding helpers: if the need manifests itself, they might appear
  • #[no_std] support

Why not 1.0?

Not until named arguments have landed and the macro gets a bit of mileage (it will be used in Mercurial).

Dependencies

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