From: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
To: Jan Kybic <kybic@fel.cvut.cz>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Run-time evaluation of a Printf format string
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:01:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B6CBDC.9000702@glondu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hc951cr9.fsf@fel.cvut.cz>
Jan Kybic wrote:
> I would need an equivalent of Printf.sprintf where the
> format string is not constant, it is read from the command line.
> The motivation is to let the user specify a template for file names,
> such as "img%03d.png". Can this be achieved in Ocaml? It seems not, as
> Pervasives.string_of_format only accepts constant strings.
> Or is there some external library useful for this task?
What about Scanf.format_from_string?
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-28 13:37 Jan Kybic
2008-08-28 14:10 ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-08-28 14:58 ` Edgar Friendly
2008-08-28 15:01 ` Dave Benjamin
2008-08-28 16:01 ` Stéphane Glondu [this message]
2008-08-29 7:34 ` Jan Kybic
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