added Anope::printf()

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/anope.h b/include/anope.h
index 56d893278..ec1d083a5 100644
--- a/include/anope.h
+++ b/include/anope.h
@@ -329,6 +329,15 @@ namespace Anope
 	extern CoreExport void Unhex(const Anope::string &src, Anope::string &dest);
 	extern CoreExport void Unhex(const Anope::string &src, char *dest);
 
+	/** Returns a sequence of data formatted as the format argument specifies.
+	 ** After the format parameter, the function expects at least as many
+	 ** additional arguments as specified in format.
+	 * @param fmt Format of the Message
+	 * @param ... any number of parameters
+	 * @return a Anope::string
+	 */
+	extern CoreExport string printf(const char *fmt, ...);
+
 	/** Return the last error, uses errno/GetLastError() to determin this
 	 * @return An error message
 	 */
diff --git a/src/misc.cpp b/src/misc.cpp
index daf7fe363..fe216fff8 100644
--- a/src/misc.cpp
+++ b/src/misc.cpp
@@ -832,6 +832,24 @@ bool Anope::Match(const Anope::string &str, const Anope::string &mask, bool case
 	return m == mask_len;
 }
 
+/** Returns a sequence of data formatted as the format argument specifies.
+ ** After the format parameter, the function expects at least as many
+ ** additional arguments as specified in format.
+ * @param fmt Format of the Message
+ * @param ... any number of parameters
+ * @return a Anope::string
+ */
+Anope::string Anope::printf(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+	char buf[1024];
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+	return buf;
+}
+
+
 /*
 * strlcat and strlcpy were ripped from openssh 2.5.1p2
 * They had the following Copyright info: