erlang/otp — pull request #357 by richcarl (2014-05-06 14:31:10+00:00)
Title: Make the scanned form of the io_lib format strings available for processing

This adds three new functions to io_lib - scan_format/2, unscan_format/1,
and build_text/1 - which expose the parsed form of the format control
sequences to make it possible to easily modify or filter the input to
io_lib:format/2. This can e.g. be used in order to replace unbounded-size
control sequences like ~w or ~p with corresponding depth-limited ~W and ~P
before doing the actual formatting.