# std.fmt: clarify the description of placeholders in Format Strings · gitcafe/zig

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Commit: 4bbc95b219ba7ab966e55624d9c9e348a14c3b34

Tree: 317d643bf3ad8061b6795619869c13ce0af244a8

Author: Duncan Holm

Committer: GitHub

## Message

```
std.fmt: clarify the description of placeholders in Format Strings

Those 6 sets of square brackets are just a typographical aid used in this doc-comment, and must not actually be written by the user in their own format string... except for in one case where they must

* Avoid the implication that the numeric index is 1-based rather than 0-based
```

## Parents

- [76c89a3de9661264395d111fa3db8d4cfa633f83](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/76c89a3de9661264395d111fa3db8d4cfa633f83?format=markdown)

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