pprintf - A format string printing function with extra functionality

pprintf() is essentially a printf() wrapper that allows a programmer to augment format strings with colors and text formatting (i.e. bold, underline, etc).

Features

pprintf() currently allows for the following formats:

• Italics (%I)
• Bold (%D)
• Underline (%U)
• Red (%R)
• Green (%G)
• Yellow (%Y)
• Blue (%B)
• Magenta (%M)
• Cyan (%C)
• White (%W)

Usage

The library can be compiled using the make library command.

pprintf() is designed to be a drop-in replacement for printf(). The format characters listed above can be appended in any order to a printf() format character (ex: %CIUs for a cyan, italicized, and underlined text). The following is an example for formatting a string to be bolded, underlined, and red:

pprintf("This is a %DURs string.\n", "test");

When compiling the above code, include the pprintf.h header file and use the following command:

gcc file.c -o file -L/path/to/libpprintf.a -lpprintf

The function can be tested using the command make test. The program will test each of the possible formattings and compare them to an expected value. Additionally, the function can be tested for memory leaks using the make leak command.

Limitations

Currently, the only printf() format string that is compatible is %s.