Question

Printf got added to Java with the 1.5 release but I can’t seem to find how to send the output to a string rather than a file (which is what sprintf does in C). Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

// Store the formatted string in 'result' String result = String.format('%4d', i * j);  // Write the result to standard output System.out.println( result ); 

See format and its syntax