# Can anyone point me to formatting string. I have an output where I want to control

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**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-anyone-point-me-to-formatting-string-i-have-an-output-where-i-want-to-control/55431 "2021-02-17T00:54:40Z")
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can anyone point me to formatting string. I have an output where I want to control the spacing of everything and have it separated like this

```julia
#This is what I have
"converged: true |...."
"converged: false |...."

#This is what I want
"converged: true |...."
"converged: false|...."

```

Also for numbers to be rounded in the text

```julia
#What I have 
"6.02341235"

#What I want
"6.02"

```

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```julia
julia> using Printf

julia> @sprintf("converged: %s |....", rpad(true, 5))
"converged: true |...."

julia> @sprintf("converged: %s |....", rpad(false, 5))
"converged: false |...."

julia> @sprintf("%.2f", 6.02341235)
"6.02"

```