[julia-users] @sprintf with a format string

[Ferran Mazzanti]

Dear all,

I could use some help here, because I can't believe I'm not able to easily 
print formatted numbers under Julia in a easy way. What I try to do is to 
write a function that, given a vector, prints all its components with a 
user-defined format. I was trying something of the form

function Print_Vec(aux_VEC,form_VEC)
    form_VEC :: ASCIIString
    str_VEC  = "%16.8f"
    for elem_VEC in aux_VEC
        str_VEC += @sprintf(form_VEC,elem_VEC)
    end
    return str_VEC
end

However, that doesn't work because it looks like the first argument in 
@sprintf must be a explicit string, and not a variable.
Is there anything I can do with that?

Thanks a lot for your help.