got the macro replacement blues

As crazy as it may seem, I have implemented this type of silly macro replacement stuff about a million times:

        public String replace( String message, Object ... argz ) {
                int i = 0;
                for ( Object arg : argz ) {
                        message = message.replaceAll( 
                                "\\{" + ( i++ ) + "}"
                                , arg.toString() 
                        );
                }
                return message;
        }

Basicly it converts something like:

"this is some {0}, Mr. {1}... some real {0}" + "mess" and "Man"

to something like:

this is some mess, Mr. Man... some real mess

The only "tricky" part is that you have to escape the opening curly with a backslash and then escape the backslash with a backslash...

Sigh...