Java equivalent of Python's format()

Question

Here's two ways of doing string substitution:

name = "Tshepang" "my name is {}".format(name) "my name is " + name 

How do I do something similar to the first method, using Java?

Answer 1

name = "Paŭlo"; MessageFormat f = new MessageFormat("my name is {0}"); f.format(new Object[]{name}); 

Or shorter:

MessageFormat.format("my name is {0}", name); 

Answer 2

String s = String.format("something %s","name");