On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:45:18AM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> With all of Larry's talk about making "x" mode the standard in REs and
> having more "pair-based" syntax here and there, I started thinking
> about a replacement for printf, as:
>
> printx(
> 'The value of $foo is %f7.3; ', $foo,
> 'the value of $bar is %f7.3.%n', $bar
> );
>
> printx(
> 'The values of $foo and $bar are %f7.3 and %f7.3, ', $foo, $bar,
> 'but the value of $baz is %f7.3%n', $baz
> );
I like the idea, but wonder how to avoid problems that could arise with
things like,
$raise = "15%";
printx(
'My raise was %s this year!', $raise
);
FWIW, C# has a format specification that looks like,
string somenums = String.Format("Some formatted numbers: dec={0,15:E} doub={1,20}",
dec, doub);
...encoding the width, justification, type and format of the numbers.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/docs.zip -- look for the String class
and IFormattable interface. They seem pretty comprehensive, certainly a
superset of printf(2) and include some neat support for printing
currencies etc. Perhaps another discussion but certainly there's a lot
Perl could learn from C#...
Paul
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