string.xml Multiple substitutions specified if using % follow by string two times

Question

Why is this working?

<string name="quantity_geoFormat">"%s"</string>

And this not?

<string name="quantity_geoFormat">"%s %s"</string>

For the second I am getting this error: Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format;

Answer 1

You need to use the positional substitution format, which looks like this: %1$s.

Thus your second string resource should look like this:

<string name="quantity_geoFormat">"%1$s %2$s"</string>