Module: Toybox.Lang

Overview

The Lang module contains Monkey C language basic types, and provides a method for formatting Strings.

Since:

API Level 1.0.0

Classes Under Namespace

Classes: Array, Boolean, ByteArray, Char, Dictionary, Double, Exception, Float, InvalidOptionsException, InvalidValueException, Long, Method, Number, Object, OperationNotAllowedException, SerializationException, StorageFullException, String, Symbol, SymbolNotAllowedException, UnexpectedTypeException, ValueOutOfBoundsException, WeakReference

Constant Summary

NumberFormat

Since:

API Level 1.0.0

Name	Value	Since	Description
NUMBER_FORMAT_FLOAT	0	API Level 3.1.0	IEEE 754 Single Precision Float Value (32-bits)
NUMBER_FORMAT_SINT16	1	API Level 3.1.0	Signed 16-bit Integer Value
NUMBER_FORMAT_SINT32	2	API Level 3.1.0	Signed 32-bit Integer Value
NUMBER_FORMAT_SINT8	3	API Level 3.1.0	Signed 8-bit Integer Value
NUMBER_FORMAT_UINT16	4	API Level 3.1.0	Unsigned 16-bit Integer Value
NUMBER_FORMAT_UINT32	5	API Level 3.1.0	Unsigned 32-bit Integer Value
NUMBER_FORMAT_UINT8	6	API Level 3.1.0	Unsigned 8-bit Integer Value

Endian

Since:

API Level 1.0.0

Name	Value	Since	Description
ENDIAN_LITTLE	0	API Level 3.1.0
ENDIAN_BIG	1	API Level 3.1.0

Typedef Summary

typedef Decimal as Lang.Float or Lang.Double

Since:

API Level 1.0.0

typedef Integer as Lang.Number or Lang.Long

Since:

API Level 1.0.0

typedef Numeric as Lang.Number or Lang.Float or Lang.Long or Lang.Double

Since:

API Level 1.0.0

Instance Method Summary

• format(format as Lang.String, parameters as Lang.Array) as Lang.String

  Create a formatted String by substituting the given parameters into the given format at the corresponding locations.

Instance Method Details

format(format as Lang.String, parameters as Lang.Array) as Lang.String

Create a formatted String by substituting the given parameters into the given format at the corresponding locations.

Parameters:

• format — (Lang.String) —

  A string using $1$, $2$, $3$... as substitution identifiers

• parameters — (Lang.Array) —

  The Array of content to substitute into the formatted String

Example:

// Set the 'myString' variable to "Your next meeting is at 2:30 on Sep 4 in room 6820."
using Toybox.Lang
var myFormat = "Your next meeting is at $1$:$2$ on $3$ $4$ in room $5$.";
var myParams = [2, 30, "Sep", 4, "6820"];
var myString = Lang.format(myFormat, myParams);

Returns:

• Lang.String —

  A new String with the substituted content

Since:

API Level 1.0.0