"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.49.1280424679.13841.digitalmars-d-le...@puremagic.com... > On Thursday, July 29, 2010 00:54:27 Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I could have sworn I saw Andrei say somewhere a while ago that Phobos2 >> supported posix-style indexed format specifiers. From what I could figure >> out from some searching that on the web, those are like "%1$s". But this >> gives me a FormatException: >> >> "%1$s".format("A"); >> >> And this works fine: >> >> "%s".format("A"); >> >> Did I get the format wrong? > > It works with writefln(), so it looks like it's a bug in format(). >
Hmm, indeed it does work in writefln. Filed: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4532