Bugshake

Hi, just a little handy AS3 snippet I thought I’d share. It simulates the string.format from dotnet in a trace statement. I decided to name it tracef like printf in c (f = format)

tracef("my location = ({0}, {1}), my name is {2}", x, y, name)

Here’s the debug function:

private function tracef(msg:String, ...arguments):void
{
   for( var i:uint = 0; i < arguments.length; ++i )
   {
      msg = msg.split("{"+i+"}").join(arguments[i]);
   }
   trace( msg );
}

Btw, msg’s are bad for you, at least in your food, but that’s a different story.