Question

I’d like to program a wrapper around printf(...).

My first attempt was:

sub printf2 {
    my $test = sprintf(@_);
    print $test;
}

As the array (in scalar context) isn’t a format string, this doesn’t work (as expected).

Does anyone know a solution? Probably without using any special packages?

EDIT: In the real context, I’d like to use sprintf. Apparently there is a difference between printf and sprintf.

Answer 1

How about this

sub pf { printf $_[0],@_[1..$#_] }