22 General utilities library [utilities]

22.14 Formatting [format]

22.14.6 Formatter [format.formatter]

22.14.6.1 Formatter requirements [formatter.requirements]

Table 73: BasicFormatter requirements [tab:formatter.basic]
Expression
Return type
Requirement
g.parse(pc)
PC​::​iterator
Parses format-spec ([format.string]) for type T in the range [pc.begin(), pc.end()) until the first unmatched character.
Throws format_error unless the whole range is parsed or the unmatched character is }.
[Note 1: 
This allows formatters to emit meaningful error messages.
— end note]
Stores the parsed format specifiers in *this and returns an iterator past the end of the parsed range.
f.format(u, fc)
FC​::​iterator
Formats u according to the specifiers stored in *this, writes the output to fc.out(), and returns an iterator past the end of the output range.
The output shall only depend on u, fc.locale(), fc.arg(n) for any value n of type size_t, and the range [pc.begin(), pc.end()) from the last call to f.parse(pc).