SBCL: List of format control directives

[mcc]

Hi,

I am playing around with the format command. It seems to be the
older brother of Cs "printf()"-function

I am searching for understandable and possibly complete list of the
format control directives (and I hope I have googled this term
correctly...what I mean is "everything which is not plain text" to
format the output of format.

In "Practical Common Lisp" I found some recipies but no plain
list of such directives.
HYPERSPEC is (sorry) not something I would like to call "readable"...
HYPERSPEC seems to have more hyperlinks than bare characters...

A more comprehensive list I found here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Format.html
...but only to figure out that THAT is Scheme, not Common Lisp...<sigh>

Where can I find such a list?

Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Best regards,
mcc

[edgar-rft]

HYPERSPEC is (sorry) not something I would like to call "readable"...

The Hyperspec is formatted to be read with Emacs-w3m, not with Firefox.

The format controls in the Hyperspec are in Chapter 22.3: Formatted Output and sub-chapters, linked near the bottom of that page.

Common Lisp the Language 2nd Edition (CLtL2), Chapter 22.3.3: Formatted Output to Character Streams has all format controls on a single page, but CLtL2 is pre-ANSI and I don't know how much it differs from the ANSI specification.

http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/cl/dpANS3/ has all Tex files of the ANSI Common Lisp Specification. In the same directory there is a set of Z-compressed DVI files that can be used to generate PDF documents. This may be easier to read, but doesn't contain the code examples from the Hyperspec.

[mcc]

Hi Edgar,

thanks again for your very helpful posting!

Best regards,
mcc

[sylwester]

In the book Practical Common Lisp you have the chapter A few FORMAT recipes

It's not a documentation but some receipes for a bunch of scenarios that usually comes up. I haven't tried to understand it all myself but I use this regulary.