Advantages and Disadvantages of using System.out.printf();

Question

I was just wondering what were the advantages and disadvantages of using System.out.printf(); We normally use System.out.println(); or System

Answer 1

Printf allows special formatting:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/sprintf/

That is the advantage. Otherwise there is no disadvantage to calling print() as you do now.

Answer 2

Look at the JavaDoc of the class PrintStream. There you can see that the print / println methods print a String and printf is

• A convenience method to write a formatted string to this output stream
• using the specified format string and arguments.