I hadn't realized this before, but Java 1.5 includes a printf formatter:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html
Finally! :-)
It's very spiffy. It includes things like argument reordering and date/time
formatting.

-Ben

Ben Hinkle wrote:
> I hadn't realized this before, but Java 1.5 includes a printf formatter:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html
> Finally! :-)
> It's very spiffy. It includes things like argument reordering and date/time
> formatting.

%n is cool too. It outputs the platform's choice of line ending.

--anders

It's surprising how similar it is to std.format, although there are significant differences (for one, the formatter is not an object in std.format).

"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle@mathworks.com> wrote in message news:ckes8i$253j$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I hadn't realized this before, but Java 1.5 includes a printf formatter:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html
> Finally! :-)
> It's very spiffy. It includes things like argument reordering and
date/time
> formatting.
>
> -Ben
>
>

Ben Hinkle wrote:
> I hadn't realized this before, but Java 1.5 includes a printf formatter:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html
> Finally! :-)
> It's very spiffy. It includes things like argument reordering and date/time
> formatting.

I see, Java's new way of doing varargs is neat.  And I'm a bit surprised (considering awkward syntactic salt I've seen in Java before) that it's decided to invent implicit conversions between primitive types and their standard wrapper classes.

Stewart.

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> 
> Ben Hinkle wrote:
> > I hadn't realized this before, but Java 1.5 includes a printf formatter:
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html
> > Finally! :-)
> > It's very spiffy. It includes things like argument reordering and date/time
> > formatting.
> 
> I see, Java's new way of doing varargs is neat.  And I'm a bit surprised

  Why are you surprised?

> (considering awkward syntactic salt I've seen in Java before) that it's decided to invent implicit conversions between primitive types and their standard wrapper classes.

  The immediate competitor C# does it. That's motivation enough.

> Stewart.

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