MessageFormat with NumberFormat parts

Question

Hi,
I try to get a MessageFormat which would behave like a mixture of lets say DecimalFormat and MessageFormat -
The first part would be like MessageFormat with any characters in it, e.g
new MessageFormat("XYZ-1230-{0}")where the part which is replaced (i only have one argument, which is in Integer value, like 1000) - {0} - has a minimum of 6 digits.
So the formatted String at the end shall be like XYZ-1230-001000
I hope this was understandable :-)
The usage of DecimalFormat alone is not going to work as e.g. the dashs will break it, even if i mask them with a single quote.
Does anyone have an idea how to extend MessageFormat to behave like DecimalFormat only for the replaced part?
Regards,
Andreas

Answer 1

import java.util.Formatter;
public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int number = 1000;
        String result = String.format("XYZ-1230-%06d",number);
        System.out.println(result);
        //or
        Formatter fmt = new Formatter();
        fmt.format("XYZ-1230-%06d",number);
        System.out.println(fmt);
}