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When your language doesn't allow arbitrary expressions in format strings(programming.dev)

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You can give it variables:

let foo = 4;
let bar = "bar";
format!("{foo}{bar}");

If you have a format string that long with arbatary expressions putting them all raw in the format string is not going to improve much. Better to give them actual names first.

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