This question is pretty much the same as this .Net question exept for java.

How do you escape the %1$ characters in a java String.format?

THe reason I need to do this is that I'm building up a string that will later have more info inserted into it. I've thought of having one of the args just be "%1$" but that doesn't seem to be very elegant?

sorry if this is obvious my java is a tad rusty.

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