[PJUG Javamail] MessageFormat question

[Karl]

Hey Michael (Late reply and assume this has already been put to bed),
Well, the MessageFormat utility would work fine here and personally don't hold a bias towards this over any other option. Your use of parens instead of curly brackets as per your message below, i.e., "{0}0-(1)-(2)", would be incorrect, but if you try this code here:

<code>

import java.text.MessageFormat;


public class testermod {
    private static String format_spec1 = "{0}-{1}-{2}";
    private static String format_spec2 = "{0}0-{1}-{2}";
    private static Object[] values = {"3182", "2300", "0000"};

    public static void main(String ... strs)
    {
        System.out.println(MessageFormat.format(format_spec1, values));
        System.out.println(MessageFormat.format(format_spec2, values));
    }
}

</code>

you'll see the results that I'm assuming you're after?




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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:52:49 -0800
From: Michael Phoenix <michaelandrewphoenix at gmail.com>
Subject: [PJUG Javamail] MessageFormat question
To: javamail at pjug.org
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I'm trying to make a change to a message pattern that currently creates a
result of numbers from sources that are separated by dashes 3182-2300-0000
to adding a 0 before the first dash so that it looks like this
31920-2200-0000. when I try changing the pattern from "{0}-{1}-{2}" to
"{0}0-(1)-(2)" the formatter doesn't work, it just leaves the original
contents in the String that is the return value of the MessageFormat.format
method. Any ideas of what I need to do here?

Thanks,
Mike

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