JavaScript equivalent of Python's format() function?

Question

Python has this beautiful function to turn this:

bar1 = \'foobar\'
bar2 = \'jumped\'
bar3 = \'dog\'

foo = \'The lazy \' + bar3 + \' \' + bar2 \' over the \'         


        

Answer 1

Taken from YAHOOs library:

YAHOO.Tools.printf = function() { 
  var num = arguments.length; 
  var oStr = arguments[0];   
  for (var i = 1; i < num; i++) { 
    var pattern = "\\{" + (i-1) + "\\}"; 
    var re = new RegExp(pattern, "g"); 
    oStr = oStr.replace(re, arguments[i]); 
  } 
  return oStr; 
} 

Call it like:

bar1 = 'foobar'
bar2 = 'jumped'
bar3 = 'dog'

foo = YAHOO.Tools.printf('The lazy {0} {1} over the {2}', bar3, bar2, bar1);