format

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Description

Description:

Composes a string containing other variables or other variable types. Converts any variable type to a string. If you want to convert a string back to a number, use parseNumber.

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The output of this command is limited to ~8Kb. joinString on the other hand doesn't have such limit

Groups:

Strings

Syntax

Syntax:

format [formatString, var1, var2 ...]

Parameters:

[formatString, var1, var2 ...]: Array

formatString: String - a string containing text and/or references to the variables listed below in the array. The references appear in the form of %1, %2 etc.

var1: Any Value - variable referenced by %1

var2: Any Value - variable referenced by %2

Return Value:

String - The full string (up to 8kb, see above) is returned.

Examples

Example 1:

format ["Player:%1, player's side:%2", player, side player]; returns "Player:WEST 1-1-A:1 (Username), player's side:WEST"

Example 2:

player addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", { hint format ["You just sustained %1%2 damage!", ceil ((_this select 2) * 100), "%"]; }]; hints "You just sustained 20% damage!"

Additional Information

See also:

formatTextendlstrtoStringjoinString

Notes

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Worldeater

The maximum number of characters returned by the format command seems to depend on the total byte count. For plain ASCII strings the limit is 2048 characters.

Killzone_Kid

In Arma 3 the max length of String returned by format command seems to be 8191 characters. formatText doesn't seem to have this limitation.

Posted on March 28, 2015 - 09:22 (UTC)

Heeeere's Johnny!

In addition to the note above, formatTexted strings are Structured Text, hence cannot be used like formatted strings (with most scripting commands). A workaround to get strings of type String with more than 8191 characters is:str formatText ["%1", _string]

Posted on January 2, 2016 - 10:22 (UTC)

Killzone Kid

In addition to the note above, you may consider using joinString instead of format or formatText workaround. joinString is a fraction faster than format and it has no limit on the length of the string (apart from global String limit obviously)