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?

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().

- Jonathan M Davis

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisprog@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.49.1280424679.13841.digitalmars-d-learn@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