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Using Printf and Sprintf - Go Tutorial
From the course: Learning the Go Standard Library
Using Printf and Sprintf
- [Instructor] For this example, we're going to look at two more string formatting functions, print F and S print F. And just like print and print line, these functions can be used to prepare strings for output. But they offer some more flexibility and power. So these functions make use of the formatting verbs and if we scroll down here in the docs, you can see that these are some of the formatting verbs here in the documentation. And these are codes that start with a percent character that let us determine how different pieces of data will be represented in the formatted string. Now there's a lot of these codes and you can see that there's some just for general use and pulling and integer values and floating points and strings and so on. So we're not going to go through all of them but we're just going to touch on the most important ones. So let's switch over to our code in the editor. And what I'm going to do is in the…
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