Java 15 introduced the multi-line string value referred to as a text block.
With this introduction also the formatted method was added to the String class.
The method can be invoked on a String value directly and function exactly as the static String.format method.
The nice thing is that now we directly can use a method on the value instead of having to use a static method where the value is passed as argument.
In the following example we use the formatted method for a normal String value and a text block:
package mrhaki.string;
public class Formatted {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String text = "Hi, %s, thank you for reading %d blogs".formatted("mrhaki", 2);
assert "Hi, mrhaki, thank you for reading 2 blogs".equals(text);
String email = """
Hello %s,
thank you for reading %d blogs.
""".formatted("Hubert", 2);
assert """
Hello Hubert,
thank you for reading 2 blogs.
""".equals(email);
}
}
Written with Java 15.
