PFE-SPRINTF - [:useful:]
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Name

sprintf:useful — ordinary primitive

Synopsis

EXTENSIONS
PFE-SPRINTF ( args ... format$ dest$ -- len-dest )(); 
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Description

just like the standard sprintf() function in C, but the format is a counted string and accepts %#s to be the format-symbol for a forth-counted string. The result is a zeroterminated string at dest$ having a length being returned. To create a forth-counted string, you could use: 

   variable A 256 ALLOT
   15 " example" " the %#s value is %i" A 1+ SPRINTF A C!
   A COUNT TYPE
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