Something I miss from Fortran is the very convenient default "print *, 
..... "  It handled almost 100% of my needs while working on a program and 
was easily replaced by real formatting when the time came. Is there any 
chance that Julia could get something like this?

Thanks

On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 3:46:31 AM UTC-5, Ferran Mazzanti wrote:
>
> 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.
>

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