Re: [Caml-list] is there a way for turning strings to "format"s?

[Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>]

On 6 November 2013 12:39, Matej Kosik
<5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd764f@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to ask, how to do something like:
>
>         let computed_format = Printf.sprintf "%%0%dd" 5 in
>         Printf.printf computed_format 42

For this example, you can use '*' in the format string to pass the
width as an argument

         let computed_format = Printf.sprintf "%0*d" 5 in
         computed_format 42

or even just

         Printf.sprintf "%0*d" 5 42