How to make a formatted string ?

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 03/17/2010 11:21 AM, Gabriel Laskar wrote:
>
> I have another problem :
>
> 1 import std.stdio;
> 2 import std.string;
> 3
> 4 int main()
> 5 {
> 6 char[][] a = ["expected %s but found %s".dup, "42".dup, "32".dup];
> 7
> 8 writeln(format(a[0], a[1 .. $]));
> 9
> 10 return 0;
> 11 }
>
> Does not work :
> $ dmd-phobos -run format.d
> std.format.FormatError: std.format

format wants to put the entire a[1 .. $] in the first %s. There isn't 
anything left over for the second %s
>
> but :
>
> 1 import std.stdio;
> 2 import std.string;
> 3
> 4 int main()
> 5 {
> 6 char[][] a = ["expected %s".dup, "42".dup];
> 7
> 8 writeln(format(a[0], a[1 .. $]));
> 9
> 10 return 0;
> 11 }
>
> does not seems to work either :
> $ dmd-phobos -run format.d
> expected [42]
>
> Did I miss something ?
>

ditto.

To get what you want, you're probably going to have to mess around with 
std.format.doFormat and implement your own format function.