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RawDoFmt

Format data into a character stream.

Declaration

Source position: exec.pas line 1778

function RawDoFmt(

const FormatString: PChar;

const DataStream: Pointer;

putChProc: TProcedure;

PutChData: Pointer

):Pointer;

Arguments

`FormatString`		%[flags][width.limit][length]type
`DataStream`		A pointer to a zone of memory containing the data. Data has to be WORD aligned.
`putChProc`		Callback function. Called for each character, including the NULL terminator. or one of the values RAWFMTFUNC_*
`PutChData`		Data propagated to each call of the callback hook.

Function result

A pointer to the rest of the DataStream.

Description

perform "C"-language-like formatting of a data stream, outputting the result a character at a time. Where % formatting commands are found in the FormatString, they will be replaced with the corresponding element in the DataStream. %% must be used in the string if a % is desired in the output.