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Created August 22, 2014 08:45
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Ruby string formatting functionality (like PHP's sprintf)
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ruby string formatting.rb
"foo-%s-baz" % "bar" # => "foo-bar-baz"
"foo-%s-baz" % 123 # => "foo-123-baz"
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kenoir commented Aug 22, 2014 

"foo-%s-bar-%s" % ["hey", " you"]
"foo-%s-bar-%s,%d" % ["hey", " you" ,3]

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kenoir commented Aug 22, 2014

Further:

"foo-%s,%s" % Array.new(2) { |i| i + 1}

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kenoir commented Aug 22, 2014

Also:

"foo = %{foo}" % { :foo => 'bar' }

From: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/String.html

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ahmedofali commented Dec 4, 2019 •
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def sprintf( text, *args )
  args.each do |arg|
    text['%s'] = arg
  end

  return text
end

puts sprintf( "ahmed %s work %s", "ali", "home" )``

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ahmed ali work home

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