# How to repeat the format in @printf?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** io\
**Created:** [August 19, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-repeat-the-format-in-printf/66695 "2021-08-19T23:48:58Z")\
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In Julia 1.6 you can use `Printf.Format`, and then `Printf.format` instead of the macro:

```julia-repl
julia> f = Printf.Format("%9.3f "^4);

julia> Printf.format(f, 1,2,3,4)
" 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 "

julia> Printf.format(stdout, f, 1,2,3,4)
    1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 

```

(Well, there is an unwanted trailing space in this example, but this can be easily worked around with other ways of making the format string.)

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