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Formatted Output

Explore how to use formatted output in D through functions like writef and writefln. Understand format specifiers to control data display, including alignment and decimal precision, enhancing your ability to present information clearly in your programs.

Formatted output

std.format module is not about the core features of the D language. Like all modules that have the prefix std, std.format is a module inside Phobos, the standard library of D.
D’s input and output format specifiers are similar to the ones in the C language. The format specifiers and flags are summarized as follows:

Format specifiers and flags
Format specifiers and flags

We have been using functions like writeln with multiple parameters as necessary to print the desired output. The parameters would be converted to their string representations and then sent to the output.

Sometimes this is not sufficient. The output may have ...