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      The current function does not do this.  My thought was it is good
      to be able to represent Swift-specific types.  But it would also
      be good to have a function that simply uses Java's
      String.format().  <br>
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      On 04/04/2013 05:41 PM, David Kelly wrote:<br>
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        <div>Is it possible to format floats in a printf() like way in
          Swift? I tried using @sprintf to print to two decimal places,
          but it doesn't seem to do what I want:</div>
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          <div>float f=0.0;</div>
          <div>string s = @sprintf("%.2f", f);</div>
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          <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tracef():
            Unknown format: %.</div>
          <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>swiftscript:sprintf,
            test.swift, line 2</div>
          <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>assignment,
            test.swift, line 3</div>
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