printf is a method of IO::Handle

Author: Jan-Olof Hendig

doc/Language/io.pod6

@@ -78,10 +78,13 @@ explicit encoding can be specified via the C<:enc> option:
 =for code :skip-test
 spurt "testfile", "latin1 text: äöüß", enc => "latin1";
 
-Writing formatted strings to a file is not directly supported at the moment because function
-'printf' is not yet a method of C<IO::Handle>. However, as a work-around, one can use
-function 'sprintf' to assign a formatted string to a C<Str> object that can then be
-used with methods '.say' or '.print' as desired.
+To write formatted strings to a file, use the L<printf|/routine/printf> function
+of L<IO::Handle>.
+
+=for code :skip-test
+my $fh = open "testfile", :w;
+$fh.printf("formatted data %04d\n", 42);
+$fh.close;
 
 To append to a file, specify the C<:a> option when opening the file handle
  explicitly,