Question

Im delphi programmer and used to use Java quite a bit a long while ago and now back onto a project in java again and im sure that there was a function or object that could be used to basically create a string with parameters and would replace said params just like PreparedStatement. Now for the life of me i cannot remember what this function is called or even if it exists outside of PreparedStatement or am i imagining things ???

For example, i want to take a string like this:

String ss = “(CODE, CATEGEORY, DESCRIPTION) VALUES (:CODE, :CATEGEORY, :DESCRIPTION)”;

and be able to do this

ss.setParam(0, "thisValue");
ss.setParam(1, "thus_value");

etc…

Any ideas

Answer 1

MessageFormat mf = new MessageFormat(
    "(CODE, CATEGEORY, DESCRIPTION) VALUES ({0}, {1}, {2})");

System.out.println(mf.format("thisValue", "thatValue", "theOtherValue"));