Printf
Printf.@printf — Macro
@printf([io::IO], "%Fmt", args...)
Print args
using C printf
style format specification string. Optionally, an IO
may be passed as the first argument to redirect output.
Examples
julia> @printf "Hello %s" "world"
Hello world
julia> @printf "Scientific notation %e" 1.234
Scientific notation 1.234000e+00
julia> @printf "Scientific notation three digits %.3e" 1.23456
Scientific notation three digits 1.235e+00
julia> @printf "Decimal two digits %.2f" 1.23456
Decimal two digits 1.23
julia> @printf "Padded to length 5 %5i" 123
Padded to length 5 123
julia> @printf "Padded with zeros to length 6 %06i" 123
Padded with zeros to length 6 000123
julia> @printf "Use shorter of decimal or scientific %g %g" 1.23 12300000.0
Use shorter of decimal or scientific 1.23 1.23e+07
For a systematic specification of the format, see here. See also: @sprintf.
Caveats
Inf
and NaN
are printed consistently as Inf
and NaN
for flags %a
, %A
, %e
, %E
, %f
, %F
, %g
, and %G
. Furthermore, if a floating point number is equally close to the numeric values of two possible output strings, the output string further away from zero is chosen.
Examples
julia> @printf("%f %F %f %F", Inf, Inf, NaN, NaN)
Inf Inf NaN NaN
julia> @printf "%.0f %.1f %f" 0.5 0.025 -0.0078125
0 0.0 -0.007812
Printf.@sprintf — Macro
@sprintf("%Fmt", args...)
Return @printf formatted output as string.
Examples
julia> @sprintf "this is a %s %15.1f" "test" 34.567
"this is a test 34.6"