Template for IntelliJ IDEA to generate toString methods with String.format

to-string-format.vm

public java.lang.String toString() {
return String.format(##
"$classname [ ##
#set ($i = 0)
#foreach ($member in $members)
#if ($i != 0) 
, ##
#end
#if ($member.numeric)
$member.name=%d##
#else
$member.name=%s##
#end
#set ($i = $i + 1)
#end
 ]",##
#set ($i = 0)
#foreach ($member in $members)
#if ($i != 0)
, ##
#end
#if ($member.objectArray)
java.util.Arrays.toString($member.accessor)
#elseif ( $member.primitiveArray && $java_version >= 5)
java.util.Arrays.toString($member.accessor)##
#elseif ($member.string)
$member.accessor ##
#else
$member.accessor ##
#end
#set ($i = $i + 1)
#end
);
}

what does "##" mean at the end of the line ?

what does "##" mean at the end of the line ?

If I remember correctly, it was so that a new line was not added after each statement because the parser would skip comments and therefore the new line too (this was 4 years ago).