) and is followed by optional <em>format modifiers</em> and a <em>conversion character</em>. The conversion character specifies the type of data, e.g. logger, level, date, thread name. The format modifiers control such things as field width, padding, left and right justification. The following is a simple example.<p>
Let the conversion pattern be <b>"\%-5p [\%t]: \%m\%n"</b> and assume that the <a class="el" href="namespacelog4cxx.html">log4cxx</a> environment was set to use a <a class="el" href="classlog4c