MessageFormat.parse

public Object[] parse( String source, ParsePosition status )

Parses the string.

Caveats: The parse may fail in a number of circumstances. For example:

If one of the arguments does not occur in the pattern.
If the format of an argument is loses information, such as with a choice format where a large number formats to "many".
Does not yet handle recursion (where the substituted strings contain {n} references.)
Will not always find a match (or the correct match) if some part of the parse is ambiguous. For example, if the pattern "{1},{2}" is used with the string arguments {"a,b", "c"}, it will format as "a,b,c". When the result is parsed, it will return {"a", "b,c"}.
If a single argument is formatted twice in the string, then the later parse wins.

public Object[] parse( String source ) throws ParseException

Parses the string. Does not yet handle recursion (where the substituted strings contain {n} references.)

ParseException if the string can't be parsed.