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+<?php
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This class encapsulates the information obtained when parsing
+ * formatting modifiers in conversion modifiers.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ * @subpackage helpers
+ * @since 0.3
+ */
+class LoggerFormattingInfo {
+
+    /**
+     * Minimal output length. If output is shorter than this value, it will be
+     * padded with spaces.
+     */
+    public $min = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Maximum output length. If output is longer than this value, it will be
+     * trimmed.
+     */
+    public $max = PHP_INT_MAX;
+
+    /**
+     * Whether to pad the string from the left. If set to false, the string
+     * will be padded from the right.
+     */
+    public $padLeft = true;
+
+    /**
+     * Whether to trim the string from the left. If set to false, the string
+     * will be trimmed from the right.
+     */
+    public $trimLeft = false;
+}