Is there a utility in the Android SDK or in Java to replace parts of a string using placeholders?

It would work something like this

someUtility.replace ("Hello, my name is {1}.  What开发者_运维技巧 is your {2}?", "Mark", "name");

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String.format("Hello, my name is %1$s.  What is your %2$s?", "Mark", "name");

or if you will just use each once in order:

String.format("Hello, my name is %s.  What is your %s?", "Mark", "name");

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Look at MessageFormat:

MessageFormat.format("Hello, my name is {0}.  What is your {1}?", "Mark", "name");

Usually I prefer String.format or System.out.printf though for c-style formatting (sort of), as Matthew suggested.

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If you want to use Spring the Resource Bundles will give you the actual exact style of replacement that you have displayed. You can see some examples here: http://www.mkyong.com/spring/spring-resource-bundle-with-resourcebundlemessagesource-example/