Rad, thank you @Peter.
'makefilename' IS very sprintf like.

@Matt . The message box trick will work for most cases also;  

thank you all!

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Peter P. <peterparker@fastmail.com> wrote:
* Ali Momeni <batchku@gmail.com> [2017-09-03 19:39]:
> Hello all,
>
> What is everyone's favorite way to format text in simple ways, a la
> something like sprintf?
>
> I'm just trying to put together names of arrays like 'myTable-1' and
> 'myTable-2' out of the symbol 'myTable' and an int '1' or '2'.
Perhaps [makefilename] does what you want.