D2: Indexed format specifiers?

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Thu Jul 29 11:20:04 PDT 2010


"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisprog at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.49.1280424679.13841.digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com...
> On Thursday, July 29, 2010 00:54:27 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> I could have sworn I saw Andrei say somewhere a while ago that Phobos2
>> supported posix-style indexed format specifiers. From what I could figure
>> out from some searching that on the web, those are like "%1$s". But this
>> gives me a FormatException:
>>
>> "%1$s".format("A");
>>
>> And this works fine:
>>
>> "%s".format("A");
>>
>> Did I get the format wrong?
>
> It works with writefln(), so it looks like it's a bug in format().
>

Hmm, indeed it does work in writefln.

Filed:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4532




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