/**
 sprintf() for JavaScript 0.6

 Copyright (c) Alexandru Marasteanu <alexaholic [at) gmail (dot] com>
 All rights reserved.

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 Changelog:
 2007.04.03 - 0.1:
 - initial release
 2007.09.11 - 0.2:
 - feature: added argument swapping
 2007.09.17 - 0.3:
 - bug fix: no longer throws exception on empty paramenters (Hans Pufal)
 2007.10.21 - 0.4:
 - unit test and patch (David Baird)
 2010.05.09 - 0.5:
 - bug fix: 0 is now preceeded with a + sign
 - bug fix: the sign was not at the right position on padded results (Kamal Abdali)
 - switched from GPL to BSD license
 2010.05.22 - 0.6:
 - reverted to 0.4 and fixed the bug regarding the sign of the number 0
 Note:
 Thanks to Raphael Pigulla <raph (at] n3rd [dot) org> (http://www.n3rd.org/)
 who warned me about a bug in 0.5, I discovered that the last update was
 a regress. I appologize for that.
 **/

function str_repeat(i, m) {
    for (var o = []; m > 0; o[--m] = i) ;
    return o.join('');
}

function sprintf() {
    var i = 0, a, f = arguments[i++], o = [], m, p, c, x, s = '';
    while (f) {
        if (m = /^[^\x25]+/.exec(f)) {
            o.push(m[0]);
        } else if (m = /^\x25{2}/.exec(f)) {
            o.push('%');
        } else if (m = /^\x25(?:(\d+)\$)?(\+)?(0|'[^$])?(-)?(\d+)?(?:\.(\d+))?([b-fosuxX])/.exec(f)) {
            if (((a = arguments[m[1] || i++]) == null) || (a == undefined)) {
                throw('Too few arguments.');
            }
            if (/[^s]/.test(m[7]) && (typeof (a) != 'number')) {
                throw('Expecting number but found ' + typeof (a));
            }
            switch (m[7]) {
                case 'b':
                    a = a.toString(2);
                    break;
                case 'c':
                    a = String.fromCharCode(a);
                    break;
                case 'd':
                    a = parseInt(a);
                    break;
                case 'e':
                    a = m[6] ? a.toExponential(m[6]) : a.toExponential();
                    break;
                case 'f':
                    a = m[6] ? parseFloat(a).toFixed(m[6]) : parseFloat(a);
                    break;
                case 'o':
                    a = a.toString(8);
                    break;
                case 's':
                    a = ((a = String(a)) && m[6] ? a.substring(0, m[6]) : a);
                    break;
                case 'u':
                    a = Math.abs(a);
                    break;
                case 'x':
                    a = a.toString(16);
                    break;
                case 'X':
                    a = a.toString(16).toUpperCase();
                    break;
            }
            a = (/[def]/.test(m[7]) && m[2] && a >= 0 ? '+' + a : a);
            c = m[3] ? m[3] == '0' ? '0' : m[3].charAt(1) : ' ';
            x = m[5] - String(a).length - s.length;
            p = m[5] ? str_repeat(c, x) : '';
            o.push(s + (m[4] ? a + p : p + a));
        } else {
            throw('Huh ?!');
        }
        f = f.substring(m[0].length);
    }
    return o.join('');
}