WoWInterface - did print():format() change?

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did print():format() change?

Doing some random testing on libs, trying to get the major, minor to print and see the values. Boredom~

Anyway, I got nil errors for these, yet LibStub loads the lib properly if you remove the print statements:

Code:

local major = "LibUtilities-1.0"

local minor = "$Revision: 10000 $"

local lib = LibStub:NewLibrary(major, minor)

print("major: %s"):format(major)

print("minor: %s"):format(minor)

print("minor: %d"):format(tonumber(minor))

if not lib then return end

I don't think print returns anything? You need to do the formatting inside.

Yeah.

Lua Code:

print("your text here":format())

Right, so I had forgotten how to use format. :eek: but that does look weird.

Thank you! Now onward to crushing boredom!! :cool::banana:

Then do it this way. :p

Lua Code:

print(string.format("your text here - %s", token))

Quote:

Originally Posted by myrroddin (Post 315797)

Code:

local major = "LibUtilities-1.0"

local minor = "$Revision: 10000 $"

local lib = LibStub:NewLibrary(major, minor)

print("major: %s"):format(major)

print("minor: %s"):format(minor)

print("minor: %d"):format(tonumber(minor))

if not lib then return end

Running something like print("major: %s"):format(major) makes the ChatFrame show major: %s and throw an "attempt to index nil" error since print() doesn't return anything.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seerah (Post 315800)

Lua Code:

print("your text here":format())

This causes Lua to throw a syntax error. As a quirk, the string needs to be encased in parenthesis in order to function.