printf

Posted on April 23rd, 2009 RubyLove No comments

Output a formatted string.

PHP

$format = 'There are %d monkeys in the %s';
printf($format, 5, 'tree');
// => There are 5 monkeys in the tree

Ruby

my_string = 'There are %d monkeys in the %s';
printf(my_string, 5, 'tree');
# => There are 5 monkeys in the tree

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