JavaScript equivalent to printf/String.Format

Current JavaScript From ES6 on you could use template strings: See Kim’s answer below for details. Older answer Try sprintf() for JavaScript. If you really want to do a simple format method on your own, don’t do the replacements successively but do them simultaneously. Because most of the other proposals that are mentioned fail when a replace string … Read more

Strings and character with printf

If you try this: Output is: So ‘name’ is actually a pointer to the array of characters in memory. If you try reading the first four bytes at 0xbff5391b, you will see ‘s’, ‘i’, ‘v’ and ‘a’ To print a character you need to pass the value of the character to printf. The value can … Read more

How many spaces for tab character(\t)?

A tab character should advance to the next tab stop. Historically tab stops were every 8th character, although smaller values are in common use today and most editors can be configured. I would expect your output to look like the following: The algorithm is to start a column count at zero, then increment it for … Read more