Hello.
A bit off topic, I suppose, but anyone know of a good printf replacement for java. The avalon logkit pattern formatter is close (very close), but not quite what I need. I'm somewhat surprised I haven't found anything in Jakarta commons, but perhaps I just don't know where to look.
Any ideas?
Sorry. None that I know of. Alot of Java developers jumped into Java. They aren't aware of printf() style functions in C libraries. There is one thing that makes them somewhat unfriendly to write is the fact that there is no support for arbitrary parameter length methods. Something to support that would have to have a parameter list like this:
String sprintf(String format, Object[] params); void oprintf(OutputStream out, String format, Object[] params); void printf(String format, Object[] params);
Writing code for this is not friendly. Esp. since normal parameters like integers and floats need to be wrapped, calling such a thing would be less than wonderful.
printf("Add a %s string, and a %f.01 float",
new Object[] {"parameterized", new Float(3.14237f)});I personally think that is too much trouble, which lowers the utility of such a thing IMO. Besides, we have the Message.format() from the i18n utilities to perform things like that.
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