Example: Write a formatted string to the builder, va_list

public static string myprintf (string str, ...) {
va_list va_list = va_list ();
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder ("foo bar foo");
builder.vprintf (str, va_list);
return (owned) builder.str;
}

public static int main (string[] args) {
// Output: ``hello, world!``
string str = myprintf ("%s, %s!\n", "hello", "world");
print (str);
return 0;
}

 valac --pkg glib-2.0 GLib.StringBuilder.vprintf.vala

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