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# How to pronounce "format string" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/fɒrmætstrɪng/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **for·mat·string**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "format string" in real conversation:

### Example 1
*Accent: US*
> "computer uh NS string oops NS selector from your format string here that um the second argument should be used first and the first argument should be used second in this case um so this is probably more"
- **Watch at 63:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4s931PEJm8&t=3820s)

### Example 2
*Accent: US*
> "that takes a format string on the left and then a comma separated uh list of variables on the right so does chorus apparently take one argument just an INT"
- **Watch at 66:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tel7_02C8YY&t=4001s)

### Example 3
*Accent: US*
> "Uh string by appending format is pretty similar except it takes a format string and a variable number of arguments for the format specifiers."
- **Watch at 60:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skx9bAWMrxE&t=3625s)

### Example 4
*Accent: US*
> "the stock symbol pass in this format stirring if you want the day's high in the day's low pass in this format string so it's like Yahoo's proprietary version"
- **Watch at 17:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvJuicIh88&t=1062s)

### Example 5
> "For a Hamming distance of N, you can correct up to N - 1 over 2 errors in a binary string, so one bit flip in the previous example. So back to the five bits of our format string. If I only wanted to communicate all zeros or all ones, I could place them at opposite corners of a five-dimensional hypercube."
- **Watch at 20:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8&t=1254s)

### Example 6
*Accent: US*
> "dollar sign and that'll basically take the second format string argument and then the first format string argument and populate them in there it's kind of"
- **Watch at 48:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVolbQVXqss&t=2925s)

### Example 7
> "But there is a way to fix this. Remember the three blue stones I put in for masking in the format string? Well, they specify one of eight ways to reshuffle the appearance of our QR code pixels to make them seem truly jumbled."
- **Watch at 27:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8&t=1636s)

### Example 8
*Accent: US*
> "at. And percent at is basically a format specifier that specifies this is an object and indicates that when the format string is formatted it should"
- **Watch at 51:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skx9bAWMrxE&t=3102s)

### Example 9
*Accent: US*
> "And we're going to use a standard um uh C-style format string here. So this is going to take the float value of the"
- **Watch at 60:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzLHgls63E&t=3636s)

### Example 10
*Accent: US*
> "those ones will match so hello hello maybe we've got a format string to be used with NS string so welcome to blank welcome to blank uh maybe we've got one"
- **Watch at 47:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVolbQVXqss&t=2863s)


## How to Pronounce "format string"

- **Syllables**: for · mat · string
- **IPA**: `/fɒrmætstrɪng/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[format](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/format), [string](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/string)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “format string”?
“format string” is pronounced /fɒrmætstrɪng/ (for · mat · string). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “format string”?
“format string” has 3 syllables: for · mat · string.

### How can I hear “format string” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “format string” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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