Format in kotlin string templates
Unfortunately, there's no built-in support for formatting in string templates yet, as a workaround, you can use something like:
"pi = ${pi.format(2)}"
the .format(n)
function you'd need to define yourself as
fun Double.format(digits: Int) = "%.${digits}f".format(this)
This will work only in Kotlin/JVM.
There's clearly a piece of functionality here that is missing from Kotlin at the moment, we'll fix it.
It's simple, use:
val str: String = "%.2f".format(3.14159)
As a workaround, There is a Kotlin stdlib function that can be used in a nice way and fully compatible with Java's String format (it's only a wrapper around Java's String.format()
)
See Kotlin's documentation
Your code would be:
val pi = 3.14159265358979323
val s = "pi = %.2f".format(pi)
Kotlin's String class has a format function now, which internally uses Java's String.format
method:
/**
* Uses this string as a format string and returns a string obtained by substituting the specified arguments,
* using the default locale.
*/
@kotlin.internal.InlineOnly
public inline fun String.Companion.format(format: String, vararg args: Any?): String = java.lang.String.format(format, *args)
Usage
val pi = 3.14159265358979323
val formatted = String.format("%.2f", pi) ;
println(formatted)
>>3.14