Format Codes - C Programmer's Cheat Sheet

DATE format codes, for wdate, strdate, dataParse, etc:

%a	Abbreviated weekday name
%A	Full weekday name
%b	Abbreviated month name
%B	Full month name
%d	Day of month as decimal number (01..31)
%H	Hour in 24-hour format (00..23)
%j	Day of year as decimal number (001..366)
%m	Month as decimal number (01..12)
%M	Minute as decimal number (00..59)
%S	Second (00..59) or second with decimals (dataParse, wdatef, 00.000000 .. 59.999999)
%S.	Second with milliseconds (strdate only)
%t	Unix time stamp in seconds, milliseconds, or microseconds since 1/1/1970 (dataParse, wdatef)
%U	Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%W	Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%y	Year without century, as decimal number (00..99)
%Y	Year with century, as decimal number (1900..2999)
%%	Percent sign

The DATE format is equivalent to a double / var variable and counts the number of days since 12-31-1899 with a resolution of 1 µsec.

Variable / string format codes, for printf, print, strf, etc:

Format specifiers:
%c	ANSI character (int, char)
%d	Decimal number (int, char)
%e	Exponential floating-point number (var, double)
%f	Floating-point number (var, double)
%g	Either %e or %f, whichever is more compact
%i	Decimal number (int, char)
%o	Octal number (int, char)
%p	Hexadecimal pointer (void*)
%s	Null-terminated text (string, char*, char[])
%u	Unsigned decimal number (int, char)
%x	Hexadecimal number (int, char), lowercase
%X	Hexadecimal number (int, char), uppercase
%%	Percent sign

Format modifiers (optional, after the %) :
n	Field width, minimum number of digits.
.m	Precision, maximum number of digits after the decimal.
-	Left align the result within the given field width.
+	Prefix the output value with a sign (+ or –).
0	Add zeros until the number of digits is reached.
' '	Add a blank ' ' if the output value is signed and positive.

Special characters
\a	Audible alert
\b	Backspace
\f	Form feed
\n	New line, or linefeed
\r	Carriage return
\t	Tab
\v	Vertical tab
\\	Backslash
#...	Print to log only

Regular expressions, for the Npp search functions

Code	Matches	Example
*	Preceding item zero or more times; like {0,}.	zo* matches "z" and "zoo".
+	Preceding item one or more times; like {1,}.	zo+ matches "zo" and "zoo", but not "z".
?	Preceding item zero or one time; like {0,1}.	zo? matches "z" and "zo", but not "zoo".
^	The position at string start.	^\d{3} matches 3 numeric digits at the start of the searched string.
$	The position at string end.	\d{3}$ matches 3 numeric digits at the end of the searched string.
.	Any single character except newline \n.	a.c matches "abc", "a1c", and "a-c".
\|	Choice between two or more items.	z\|food matches "z" or "food". (z\|f)ood matches "zood" or "food".
\*	The * character; similar with \+, \?, \., \[, \(, etc.
\b	Word boundary.	er\b matches the "er" in "never" but not the "er" in "verb".
\B	Word non-boundary.	er\B matches the "er" in "verb" but not the "er" in "never".
\d	Digit character; equivalent to [0-9].	In "12 345", \d{2} matches "12" and "34". \d matches "1", 2", "3", "4", "5".
\D	Nondigit character; equivalent to [^0-9].	\D+ matches "abc" and " def" in "abc123 def".
\s	Any white-space character; like [ \f\n\r\t\v].
\S	Any non-white-space character; like [^ \f\n\r\t\v].
\w	A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore, like [A-Za-z0-9_].	In "The quick brown fox…", \w+ matches "The", "quick", "brown", "fox".
\W	Any character except A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore.	In "The quick brown fox…", \W+ matches "…" and all of the spaces.
()	Start and end of a subexpression.	A(\d) matches "A0" to "A9". (f\|b)*oo matches foo, boo, and oo.
[abc]	A character set; matches any specified character.	[abc] matches the "a" in "plain".
[^abc]	Negative character set; any not specified character.	[^abc] matches the "p", "l", "i", and "n" in "plain".
[a-z]	A range of characters; any character in the range.	[a-z] matches any lowercase character in the range "a" through "z".
[^a-z]	Negative range; any character not in the range.	[^a-z] matches any character that is not in the range "a" through "z".
[a,b]	All items separated with commas.	[a-z,-] matches all characters in "my-file".
{n}	Preceding item exactly n times.	o{2} does not match the "o" in "Bob", but the two "o"s in "food".
{n,}	Preceding item at least n times.	o{2,} does not match the "o" in "Bob" but all the "o"s in "foooood".
{n,m}	Preceding item at least n and at most m times.	In "1234567", \d{1,3} matches "123", "456", and "7".
\cx	The control character indicated by x.	\cM matches a CTRL+M or carriage return character.
\xnn	A 2 digits hexadecimal character.	\x41 matches "A". (\x041 is wrong!)
\unnnn	A 4 digits Unicode character.	\u00A9 matches the copyright symbol (©).

ANSI table (ISO 8859), for special characters in strings

32	[ ]	33	!	34	"	35	#	36	$	37	%	38	&	39	'
40	(	41	)	42	*	43	+	44	,	45	-	46	.	47	/
48	0	49	1	50	2	51	3	52	4	53	5	54	6	55	7
56	8	57	9	58	:	59	;	60	<	61	=	62	>	63	?
64	@	65	A	66	B	67	C	68	D	69	E	70	F	71	G
72	H	73	I	74	J	75	K	76	L	77	M	78	N	79	O
80	P	81	Q	82	R	83	S	84	T	85	U	86	V	87	W
88	X	89	Y	90	Z	91	[	92	\	93	]	94	^	95	_
96	`	97	a	98	b	99	c	100	d	101	e	102	f	103	g
104	h	105	i	106	j	107	k	108	l	109	m	110	n	111	o
112	p	113	q	114	r	115	s	116	t	117	u	118	v	119	w
120	x	121	y	122	z	123	{	124	\|	125	}	126	~	127
128	€	129	•	130	‚	131	ƒ	132	„	133	…	134	†	135	‡
136	ˆ	137	‰	138	Š	139	‹	140	Œ	141		142	Ţ	143
144	•	145	Ř	146	ř	147	Ŗ	148	ŗ	149	•	150	Ŕ	151	ŕ
152	˜	153	™	154	š	155	›	156	œ	157	•	158	ţ	159	Ÿ
160		161	¡	162	¢	163	£	164	¤	165	¥	166	¦	167	§
168	¨	169	©	170	ª	171	«	172	¬	173		174	®	175	¯
176	°	177	±	178	²	179	³	180	´	181	µ	182	¶	183	·
184	¸	185	¹	186	º	187	»	188	¼	189	½	190	¾	191	¿
192	À	193		194	Â	195	Ã	196	Ä	197	Å	198	Æ	199	Ç
200	È	201	É	202	Ê	203	Ë	204	Ì	205		206	Î	207
208	�?	209	Ñ	210	Ò	211	Ó	212	Ô	213	Õ	214	Ö	215	×
216	Ø	217	Ù	218	Ú	219	Û	220	Ü	221		222	Þ	223	ß
224	à	225	á	226	â	227	ã	228	ä	229	å	230	æ	231	ç
232	è	233	é	234	ê	235	ë	236	ì	237	í	238	î	239	ï
240	ð	241	ñ	242	ò	243	ó	244	ô	245	õ	246	ö	247	÷
248	ø	249	ù	250	ú	251	û	252	ü	253	ý	254	þ	255	ÿ

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