/usr/lib/swipl/library/prolog_format.pl
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  • swipl
    • library
      • error.pl -- Error generating support
      • apply.pl -- Apply predicates on a list
      • lists.pl -- List Manipulation
      • debug.pl -- Print debug messages and test assertions
      • broadcast.pl -- Event service
      • socket.pl -- Network socket (TCP and UDP) library
      • predicate_options.pl -- Access and analyse predicate options
      • shlib.pl -- Utility library for loading foreign objects (DLLs, shared objects)
      • option.pl -- Option list processing
      • uid.pl -- User and group management on Unix systems
      • unix.pl -- Unix specific operations
      • syslog.pl -- Unix syslog interface
      • thread_pool.pl
      • gensym.pl
      • settings.pl -- Setting management
      • arithmetic.pl -- Extensible arithmetic
      • main.pl -- Provide entry point for scripts
      • readutil.pl -- Read utilities
      • ssl.pl -- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) library
      • crypto.pl -- Cryptography and authentication library
      • pldoc.pl -- Process source documentation
      • operators.pl -- Manage operators
      • pairs.pl -- Operations on key-value lists
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • pengines.pl -- Pengines: Web Logic Programming Made Easy
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • memfile.pl
      • sgml.pl -- SGML, XML and HTML parser
      • quasi_quotations.pl -- Define Quasi Quotation syntax
      • pure_input.pl -- Pure Input from files and streams
      • time.pl -- Time and alarm library
      • uri.pl -- Process URIs
      • solution_sequences.pl -- Modify solution sequences
      • uuid.pl -- Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) Library
      • ordsets.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
      • base64.pl -- Base64 encoding and decoding
      • aggregate.pl -- Aggregation operators on backtrackable predicates
      • pcre.pl -- Perl compatible regular expression matching for SWI-Prolog
      • pengines_io.pl -- Provide Prolog I/O for HTML clients
      • sandbox.pl -- Sandboxed Prolog code
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl -- Analyse format specifications
        • format_spec/2
        • format_spec//1
        • format_types/2
      • yall.pl -- Lambda expressions
      • sha.pl -- SHA secure hashes
      • process.pl -- Create processes and redirect I/O
      • filesex.pl -- Extended operations on files
      • zlib.pl -- Zlib wrapper for SWI-Prolog
      • bdb.pl -- Berkeley DB interface
      • hash_stream.pl -- Maintain a hash on a stream
      • md5.pl -- MD5 hashes
      • porter_stem.pl
      • csv.pl -- Process CSV (Comma-Separated Values) data
      • pprint.pl -- Pretty Print Prolog terms
      • atom.pl -- Operations on atoms
      • ctypes.pl -- Character code classification
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl -- Finding and counting sub-terms
      • prolog_xref.pl -- Prolog cross-referencer data collection
      • prolog_colour.pl -- Prolog syntax colouring support.
      • lazy_lists.pl -- Lazy list handling
      • prolog_code.pl -- Utilities for reasoning about code
      • ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library
      • xpath.pl -- Select nodes in an XML DOM
      • iostream.pl -- Utilities to deal with streams
      • doc_http.pl -- Documentation server
      • url.pl -- Analysing and constructing URL
      • www_browser.pl -- Open a URL in the users browser
      • prolog_pack.pl -- A package manager for Prolog
      • prolog_config.pl -- Provide configuration information
      • git.pl -- Run GIT commands
      • strings.pl -- String utilities
      • dif.pl -- The dif/2 constraint
      • dialect.pl -- Support multiple Prolog dialects
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • ansi_term.pl -- Print decorated text to ANSI consoles
      • terms.pl -- Term manipulation
      • listing.pl -- List programs and pretty print clauses
      • persistency.pl -- Provide persistent dynamic predicates
      • pengines_sandbox.pl -- Declare Pengine interaction sandbox-safe
      • term_to_json.pl
      • prolog_stack.pl -- Examine the Prolog stack
      • prolog_clause.pl -- Get detailed source-information about a clause
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl -- Manage Prolog break-points
      • wfs.pl -- Well Founded Semantics interface
      • mallocinfo.pl -- Memory allocation details
      • chr.pl
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl -- Dict utilities
      • varnumbers.pl -- Utilities for numbered terms
      • nb_set.pl -- Non-backtrackable sets
      • optparse.pl -- command line parsing
      • make.pl -- Reload modified source files
      • backcomp.pl -- Backward compatibility
      • streampool.pl -- Input multiplexing
      • plunit.pl -- Unit Testing
      • rdf.pl -- RDF/XML parser
      • rdf_triple.pl -- Create triples from intermediate representation
      • rdf_parser.pl
      • rewrite_term.pl
      • date.pl -- Process dates and times
      • prolog_history.pl -- Per-directory persistent commandline history
      • statistics.pl -- Get information about resource usage
      • charsio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • writef.pl -- Old-style formatted write
      • udp_broadcast.pl -- A UDP broadcast proxy
      • fastrw.pl -- Fast reading and writing of terms
      • prolog_codewalk.pl -- Prolog code walker
      • prolog_metainference.pl -- Infer meta-predicate properties
      • editline.pl -- BSD libedit based command line editing
      • rbtrees.pl -- Red black trees
      • prolog_stream.pl -- A stream with Prolog callbacks
      • paxos.pl -- A Replicated Data Store
      • prolog_versions.pl -- Demand specific Prolog versions
      • macros.pl -- Macro expansion
      • doc_files.pl -- Create stand-alone documentation files
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • tables.pl -- XSB interface to tables
      • redis.pl -- Redis client
      • double_metaphone.pl -- Phonetic string matching
      • isub.pl -- isub: a string similarity measure
      • increval.pl -- Incremental dynamic predicate modification
      • odbc.pl
      • explain.pl -- Describe Prolog Terms
      • yaml.pl -- Process YAML data
      • help.pl -- Text based manual
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • shell.pl -- Elementary shell commands
      • doc_latex.pl -- PlDoc LaTeX backend
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • thread.pl -- High level thread primitives
      • archive.pl -- Access several archive formats
      • prolog_jiti.pl -- Just In Time Indexing (JITI) utilities
      • readline.pl -- GNU readline interface
      • test_cover.pl -- Clause coverage analysis
      • mqi.pl
      • unicode.pl -- Unicode string handling
      • quintus.pl -- Quintus compatibility
      • intercept.pl -- Intercept and signal interface
      • prolog_profile.pl -- Execution profiler
      • base32.pl -- Base32 encoding and decoding
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • stomp.pl -- STOMP client.
      • cgi.pl -- Read CGI parameters
      • edit.pl -- Editor interface
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • pwp.pl -- Prolog Well-formed Pages
      • sgml_write.pl -- XML/SGML writer module
      • zip.pl -- Access resource ZIP archives
      • crypt.pl
      • snowball.pl -- The Snowball multi-lingual stemmer library
      • redis_streams.pl -- Using Redis streams
      • xmlenc.pl -- XML encryption library
      • hashtable.pl -- Hash tables
      • table.pl
      • rlimit.pl
      • system.pl -- System utilities
      • streams.pl -- Manage Prolog streams
      • qsave.pl -- Save current program as a state or executable
      • prolog_autoload.pl -- Autoload all dependencies
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
      • rdf_write.pl -- Write RDF/XML from a list of triples
      • protobufs.pl -- Google's Protocol Buffers ("protobufs")
      • utf8.pl -- UTF-8 encoding/decoding on lists of character codes.
      • portray_text.pl -- Portray text
      • xsdp_types.pl -- XML-Schema primitive types
      • readln.pl -- Read line as list of tokens
      • c14n2.pl -- C14n2 canonical XML documents
 format_types(+Format:text, -Types:list) is det
True when Format requires an argument list with terms of the type specified by Types. The length of this list is the number of arguments required. Each value of Types is a type as described by error:has_type/2.