Scala string template

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Is there default(in SDK) scala support for string templating? Example: "$firstName $lastName"(named not numbered parameters) or even constructs like for/if. If there is no such default engine, what is the best scala library to accomplish this.

possible duplicate of [Better String formatting in Scala](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4051308/better-string-formatting-in-scala) — Always Asking, Nov 13 '14 at 01:33

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '11 at 13:23

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If you want a templating engine, I suggest you have a look at scalate. If you just need string interpolation, "%s %s".format(firstName, lastName) is your friend.

answered Jun 04 '11 at 13:23

Kim Stebel

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '15 at 22:27

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In Scala 2.10 and up, you can use string interpolation

val name = "James"
println(s"Hello, $name")  // Hello, James

val height = 1.9d
println(f"$name%s is $height%2.2f meters tall")  // James is 1.90 meters tall

answered Aug 17 '15 at 22:27

David Leppik

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If I need to read the template "$name%s is $height%2.2f meters tall" from a file? Or just have it in a var/val? – Andrii Karaivanskyi Feb 15 '22 at 23:01

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Complementing Kim's answer, note that Java's Formatter accepts positional parameters. For example:

"%2$s %1$s".format(firstName, lastName)

Also, there's the Enhanced Strings plugin, which allows one to embed arbitrary expressions on Strings. For example:

@EnhanceStrings // enhance strings in this scope
trait Example1 {
  val x = 5
  val str = "Inner string arithmetics: #{{ x * x + 12 }}"
}

See also this question for more answers, as this is really a close duplicate.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jun 04 '11 at 14:32

Daniel C. Sobral

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+1 for the Enhanced Strings compiler plugin - no, it's not SDK, but it does a pretty good job – Kristian Domagala Jun 05 '11 at 23:21

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 13 '11 at 03:52

This compiler plug-in has provided string interpolation for a while:

http://jrudolph.github.com/scala-enhanced-strings/Overview.scala.html

More recently, the feature seems to be making it into the scala trunk: https://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/browser/scala/trunk/test/files/run/stringInterpolation.scala -- which generates some interesting possiblities: https://gist.github.com/a69d8ffbfe9f42e65fbf (not sure if these were possible with the plug-in; I doubt it).

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