Sprintf equivalent in Java

Question

Printf got added to Java with the 1.5 release but I can\'t seem to find how to send the output to a string rather than a file (which is what sprintf does in C). Does anyone

Answer 1

You can do a printf to anything that is an OutputStream with a PrintStream. Somehow like this, printing into a string stream:

PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(baos);
ps.printf("there is a %s from %d %s", "hello", 3, "friends");
System.out.println(baos.toString());
baos.reset(); //need reset to write new string
ps.printf("there is a %s from %d %s", "flip", 5, "haters");
System.out.println(baos.toString());
baos.reset();

The string stream can be created like this ByteArrayOutputStream:

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();