Format a JavaScript string using placeholders and an object of substitutions?

Question

I have a string with say: My Name is %NAME% and my age is %AGE%.

%XXX% are placeholders. We need to substitute values there from an object.

Answer 1

As a quick example:

var name = 'jack';
var age = 40;
console.log('%s is %d yrs old',name,age);

The output is:

jack is 40 yrs old