title: escaping formatting characters in java String.format
body: <p>This question is pretty much the same as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/91362/how-to-escape-brackets-in-a-format-string-in-net">this .Net question</a> exept for java.</p>
  
  <p>How do you escape the <code>%1$</code> characters in a java <code>String.format</code>?</p>
  
  <p>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 <code>"%1$"</code> but that doesn't seem to be very elegant?</p>
  
  <p>sorry if this is obvious my java is a tad rusty.</p>