# printf

> function to print a string according to a format string, introduced in the C programming language but supported by many languages

**Wikidata**: [Q838016](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838016)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf)  
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## References

1. [ormatting Numeric Print Output (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Numbers and Strings)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/data/numberformat.html)
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013