[Swift-devel] Formatting floats

[Justin M Wozniak]

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().

On 04/04/2013 05:41 PM, David Kelly wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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:
>
> float f=0.0;
> string s = @sprintf("%.2f", f);
>
> Execution failed:
> tracef(): Unknown format: %.
> swiftscript:sprintf, test.swift, line 2
> assignment, test.swift, line 3
>
> David
>
>
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Justin M Wozniak

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