Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java String printf method can be confusing at first, but it greatly simplifies how you ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java printf function helps simplify the task of printing formatted output to the console, ...

As we can see in the example above, the format () method is a static method. Remember this means it does not need a String instance to be called, we invoke the method through the class name i.e.

The following warning appears a lot during build. Forbidden method invocation: java.lang.String#format(java.lang.String,java.lang.Object[]) [Uses default locale] in ...