Sometimes in Strings I see something like this %1$s or this %2$d. Can somebody explain to me how to read such things?
Sometimes in Strings I see something like this %1$s or this %2$d . Can
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Sometimes in Strings I see something like this %1$s or this %2$d. Can somebody explain to me how to read such things?
Check this document http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html#syntax the string is basically broken in
From your example %1$s,
%means replace with a parameter1$is the position in the parameter array.ssignals that the parameter is a string.This is taken from Java, but a lot of programming languages use the same syntax for string formatting.