[Boost-users] Re: Format Library - Asterisk Support

In article <989aceac04102110261565afaf@mail.gmail.com>, Caleb Epstein wrote:

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 04:47:01 -0400, Miro Jurisic wrote:

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A typesafe solution is to use "format ("%1%") % string(buf, len)" if I understand the question correctly.

That would only work for string types. The * width specifier can be used with ANY type, e.g.:

printf ("|%*d|", 6, 42);

Yields "| 42|".

You know, I am sure I knew that in the back of my head, but I only ever used it for strings. Thanks. meeroh