A convenience method to write a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments. If automatic flushing is enabled, calls to this method will flush the output buffer.
An invocation of this method of the form
out.printf(format, args)
behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation
out.format(format, args)
format
| A format string as described in Format string syntax. | |
args
| Arguments referenced by the format specifiers in the format
string. If there are more arguments than format specifiers, the
extra arguments are ignored. The number of arguments is
variable and may be zero. The maximum number of arguments is
limited by the maximum dimension of a Java array as defined by
The Java™ Virtual Machine Specification.
The behaviour on a
null argument depends on the conversion. |
java.util.IllegalFormatException
| If a format string contains an illegal syntax, a format specifier that is incompatible with the given arguments, insufficient arguments given the format string, or other illegal conditions. For specification of all possible formatting errors, see the Details section of the formatter class specification. | |
NullPointerException
| If the format is null |
Diagram: Writer