Scilab Function
Last update : 12/01/2004

sprintf - Emulator of C language sprintf function

### Calling Sequence

  `str=sprintf(format,value_1,..,value_n)`

### Parameters

- `format`: a Scilab string. Specifies a character string combining literal characters with conversion specifications.
- `value_i`: Specifies the data to be converted according to the format parameter.
- `str`: column vector of character strings

### Description

The `sprintf` function converts, formats, and stores its `value` parameters, under control of the `format` parameter.

The `format` parameter is a character string that contains two types of objects:

  Literal characters: which are copied to the output stream.
  Conversion specifications: each of which causes zero or more items to be fetched from the `value` parameter list. see `printf_conversion` for details

If there are not enough items for `format` in the `value` parameter list, `sprintf` generate an error. If any `value`s remain after the entire `format` has been processed, they are ignored.

Note: `sprintf` is obsolete, use `msprintf` instead.

### Examples

    fahr=120
    sprintf('%3d Fahrenheit = %6.1f Celsius',fahr,(5/9)*(fahr-32))

### See Also

`string`, `print`, `write`, `format`, `disp`, `file`, `printf`, `fprintf`, `msprintf`,