[julia-users] Is there a way to get a printf() or sprintf() function in Julia?

[Patrick O'Leary]

There are a few issues that get a bit into why this is harder than it looks. 
I'll start you off at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5866, and you 
can see where things stand now over at 
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10610. If you search around (maybe 
here, maybe the dev list, don't recall exactly) I think there's at least one 
mailing list thread as well that has further discussion.