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stringWithParams (string; paramList)

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Nicolas Bourré, Me, Myself and I
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Function that substitute parameters in a string. The parameters are placeholders with a specific format. This function act some sort like the printf function in C.

Sample Input:

stringWithParams ("My name is %3, I am %1 years old and I do love %2 for dinner."; "52¶potatoes¶John Smith")

Sample Output:

My name is John Smith, I am 52 and I do love potatoes for dinner.

/* Function that substitute parameters in a string. The parameters are placeholders with a specific format. This function act some sort like the printf function in C. The format of a placeholder must be %X where X is the index number of the parameter in the list. Syntax : stringWithParams (string; paramList) Example : stringWithParams ("My name is %3, I am %1 years old and I do love %2 for dinner."; "52¶potatoes¶John Smith") Nicolas Bourré */ Let ( [ nbParams = ValueCount (paramList); placeHolder = "%" & nbParams; paramListShort = LeftValues (paramList; nbParams - 1); newString = Substitute (string; placeHolder; GetValue (paramList; nbParams)) ]; If (ValueCount (paramListShort) > 0; stringWithParams (newString; paramListShort); newString) )
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Function that substitute parameters in a string. The parameters are placeholders with a specific format. This function act some sort like the printf function in C.

The format of a placeholder must be %X where X is the index number of the parameter in the list.

Might be useful for multilingual solution.

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