# Override printed representation of vectors
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/override-printed-representation-of-vectors/35407
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/override-printed-representation-of-vectors/35407 "2020-03-02T14:14:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ea42gh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ea42gh)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/override-printed-representation-of-vectors/35407/1 "2020-03-02T14:14:38Z")
Is there a way to override the print representation of a complex vector?
```julia
u=[1 2]; println( "u=$u")
u=[1im 2]; println( "u=$u")
```
yields
```julia
u=[1 2]
u=Complex{Int64}[0 + 1im 2 + 0im]
```
I want to get rid of the type specification; yes, I could write some code,
but is there some simple way to achieve this?
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/override-printed-representation-of-vectors/35407/2 "2020-03-02T17:07:29Z")
You could call
```julia
Base.print_array(stdout, u)
```
which outputs bare-bones contents (without even the brackets). This is an undocumented internal function, however.
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### Author:  [@ea42gh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ea42gh)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/override-printed-representation-of-vectors/35407/3 "2020-03-03T04:53:55Z")
Thank you, that works
`print("["); Base.print_array(stdout, [1im 2+2im]); println("]")`
yields
`[0 + 1im 2 + 2im]`
still a bit hard to read due to the spaces, but no user code required!