Is there a sprintf equivalent for node.js

Question

Looking to do output formatting (sprintf type functionality) in node.js, but before I write it myself I was wondering if there\'s something similar built-in (I\'ve trawled the d

Answer 1

console.log works fine.

console.log('%d hours', 4); // 4 hours
console.log('The %2$s contains %1$d monkeys', 4, 'tree'); // The tree contains 4 monkeys

Answer 2

Here is the javascript version of sprintf:

http://phpjs.org/functions/sprintf:522

Answer 3

There is now printf-like support in util.format().

Example:

util.format('hello %s', 'world');
// Returns: 'hello world'

Answer 4

There are couple in the npm registry which are actual sprintf implementations since util.format has just a very basic support.

• sprintf (deprecated now)
• sprintf-js
• fast-printf