AuStringToFormat(3)

✨ AuStringToFormat(3) ✨

okay so bestie, we're in the Library Functions Manual section of the audiolib docs and today's main character is AuStringToFormat 💅 she's the one who takes your lil string and tells you what audio data format it means. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

AuStringToFormat — return the format described by string. fr fr, that's the whole job.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <audio/audiolib.h>

int AuStringToFormat(string)
    char *string;

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• string — Specifies the string description of the audio data format. like, the word-y version of the format, and she'll translate it into a number for you 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

AuStringToFormat returns the numeric value of the audio data format described by string — obsessed, she just knows the mapping ✨

or she returns -1 if string is not recognized 😭 so like, if your string is giving chaos and doesn't match anything, you get -1. that's your vibe check failing. no format for you.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• AuFormatToString — the reverse bestie, numbers → strings 🔁
• audiolib — Network Audio System C Language Interface

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not me being a whole manpage and still keeping it cute 🎀 anyway go forth and convert those strings, queen 👑

this has been AuStringToFormat(3) from the audioutil 1.9.5 era of audiolib 💜 periodt. byeee 🦋✨