Getting a replacement for sprintf

From sth at info-igor.org Mon Feb 25 11:41:57 2019
From: sth at info-igor.org (Scott Hannahs)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:41:57 -0500

Subject: Getting a replacement for sprintf ?!
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Will ?brilliant? may be an overstatement?. I think it may be a problem that optional parameters must be of a specified type and order. There isn?t an ability for the 2nd through nth parameters to be arbitrary mixed types of string and variable. But if they are all variables, and one just lets string variables be concatenated it might work.

-Scott

> On Feb 25, 2019, at 2:38 PM, DiVerdi,Joseph <Joseph.DiVerdi at ColoState.EDU> wrote:
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> Thomas,
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> Scott Hannahs made the (brilliant) suggestion earlier today of writing a _function_ to wrap the sprintf _operation_ to address the first item you raised below. (I wrote back to him directly and not to the whole list.) As soon as I get a free moment I'm going to do this and take it out for a test drive.
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> Best regards,
> Joseph
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