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Inheriting from ST_FORMATTING_ROUTINES adds the feature format to the current class. format takes two arguments: a string containing formatting specifications and an array of parameters. This array must be an array of references. For example ARRAY [BOOLEAN] does not work with SmartEiffel. Because BOOLEAN does not conform to ANY is SmartEiffel 2.1, we need to use ARRAY [DS_CELL [BOOLEAN]] in that case.

format returns a STRING where all formatting specifications have been replaced by their corresponding formatted parameters. 

class TEST

inherit

    ST_FORMATTING_ROUTINES

create

    make

feature -- Initialization

    make is
        do
            print (format ("$s $i", <<"hello", integer_cell (2)>>))
        end

end

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