Hi,

On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 20:58 -0400, Nicholas Park wrote:
> If I understand what you're asking for, I think you want something
> like
> string.format()
> <http://chapel.cray.com/docs/latest/modules/standard/IO.html#IO.strin
> g.format>
> .

Spot on, thanks. I wonder if this should be extracted from the IO
module and made part of the standard string stuff?

> For example, in Chapel on can do:
> 
> > 
> > var x = 42;
> > var y = 3.1415926;
> > var m = "(%i, %r)".format(x,y);
> > writeln(m);
> > // Output: (42, 3.14159)
> 
> which compares closely with the equivalent Python:

This leads to a question about use, but I will post separately to
create a new thread.

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