From 0c43b6ef5c26f927b62eeaf3b365c88b07bf8d1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yettinmoor <51028130+yettinmoor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 21:11:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] document how to escape curly braces in fmt.format

---
 lib/std/fmt.zig | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/std/fmt.zig b/lib/std/fmt.zig
index 3067a55759..112377b887 100644
--- a/lib/std/fmt.zig
+++ b/lib/std/fmt.zig
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ fn peekIsAlign(comptime fmt: []const u8) bool {
 /// This allows user types to be formatted in a logical manner instead of dumping all fields of the type.
 ///
 /// A user type may be a `struct`, `vector`, `union` or `enum` type.
+///
+/// To print literal curly braces, escape them by writing them twice, e.g. `{{` or `}}`.
 pub fn format(
     writer: anytype,
     comptime fmt: []const u8,