[eclipse-users] sprintf?

Is there an equivalent to 'sprintf' in eclipse? That is, a version of  
printf/3 which writes its output to a string variable rather than to  
a stream?

Malcolm

--
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisation.
Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians,
Many clever men at the end of Rome.
                               - G.K.Chesterton, The Napoleon of  
Notting Hill