printf()

[Vladdy]

Any of you old C wolves ever feel nostalgic about good, old, trusted printf()?
I did, and since when it comes to JavaScript I write first and Google later, here is what I came up with:
www.vladdy.net/Demos/printf.html

Integer length modifiers and pointer types are not supported in my emulation for obvious reasons.

Bugs are quite possible - bug reports are quite welcome.

WA: I thought the script is too long to post inline. If you think different, I would be happy to follow the category guidelines and correct my mistake.

[MotherNatrsSon]

It does not work for me in Netscape 7 on a Mac. I get this error from the javascript console:

Error: syntax error
Source Code:
printf('',);

MNS

[Vladdy]

You need to add some arguments:
printf('Integer: %i',23)

printf('',) will sure cause a syntax error.

[RoyW]

Ahh,
reminds me of my 'C' programming days.

Seems to work. Tried the hex "%09x" and decimal "%09d" and it worked ok untill I did

printf("images/img%03d.gif", 1); => images/img001.gif
printf("images/img%03d.gif", 2); => images/img002.gif
printf("images/img%03d.gif", 3); => images/img003.gif

but then

printf("images/img%03d.gif", 0); => images/img.gif

(same for %03x)

[Vladdy]

Nice catch, Roy!
Fixed.

[RoyW]

I can already see some uses for this script.

instead of

document.write"<div style='position:absolute;width:"+w+";height:"+h+"'></div>");

It would become

var w=200;
var h=100;
printf("<div style='position:absolute;width:%d;height%d'></div>", w,h);

Output:
<div style='position:absolute;width:200;height100'></div>


Which seems a lot easier to read.

And I tried this and it worked

var red=128;
var green=255;
var blue=127;

if(moz)
    printf("font-color: rgb(%d %d %d); ", red, green, blue);
else
    printf("font-color:#%2x%2x%2x;", red, green, blue);

Output:
font-color: rgb(128 255 127);
or
font-color:#80ff7f;

A very nice utility function, thanks for sharing.
(Can you now do scanf?
scanf(elem.style.fontColor, "#%2x%2x%2x", &r, &g, &b)
)

[RoyW]

Still playing...

Could be very usefull for those wanting to format currency. Try typing this into the test line

str="";for(i=0 ; i<10 ; i++) {money=Math.random()*400;str += (printf("$ %6.02f", money)  + "\n" );}str;

[Vladdy]

I'm glad you found it useful.
as far as scanf goes... cant do &r