%* format specifier

#1 08-19-2008, 04:32 PM

I cannot seem to find the Verilog 2001, or SystemVerilog equivalent to
%* format specifier in C/C++! Example found below:

$sformat( str, "[%-*s] : %5d", name_max_length, name, value );

Is there a way to achieve this in SystemVerilog somehow?
-- Amal

#2 08-25-2008, 09:46 AM

On Aug 19, 4:32*pm, Amal <akhailt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot seem to find the Verilog 2001, or SystemVerilog equivalent to
> %* format specifier in C/C++! *Example found below:
>
> * $sformat( str, "[%-*s] : %5d", name_max_length, name, value );
>
> Is there a way to achieve this in SystemVerilog somehow?
> -- Amal

Anyone has any ideas about this? Or should this be implemented as a
function?
-- Amal

#3 08-26-2008, 06:43 PM

On Aug 19, 4:32*pm, Amal <akhailt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot seem to find the Verilog 2001, or SystemVerilog equivalent to
> %* format specifier in C/C++! *Example found below:
>
> * $sformat( str, "[%-*s] : %5d", name_max_length, name, value );
>
> Is there a way to achieve this in SystemVerilog somehow?

There is no equivalent to the %* format specifier in Verilog or
SystemVerilog.

The best suggestion I can come up with is to write your own code to
extract name_max_length characters (or fewer, if there are fewer) out
of name into a separate string variable, and print that instead.

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