using strings.xml with %, $ and / and formatted

Question

I added this line to my strings.xml, and it wont compile into R.
<string name="cl_txt_verinfo">List Version: %1$s\nAuthor: %2$s\nDate Created: %3$s\nLanguage: %4$s</string>

the errors i get are:

error: Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format; did you mean to add the formatted="false" attribute? error: Unexpected end tag string

I want to ask how to make this work(i will use string.format later) and what does "formatted=false" do as opposed to not adding it/add it as true.

Edit: Clean and build is how I got this error. I got it so many times. But then I deleted an empty line and clean and rebuild everything is fine. This is really inconsistent and i have no idea what's causing the problem in the first place.

Two questions left:

• Could someone still tell me what difference would "formatted=false" make?
• How did I got this kind of behavior?(reporting error when there's none and i try to fix it by blowing things up and create a mess)

This is not the only time i had an error then it magically fixes itself. sometime i restart my adt and it resolves itself, but not this time sadly.

Solution

If you added formatted=false then format specifiers(%,$ etc.) in your string resource are disabled and Formatter won't be able to recognize them. This will definitely help you.

For your 2nd problem there is no exact solution but what I do is delete gen and bin folder and then clean build project. What happens is every time you build a project, android checks if there is any new resource available and adds it to R.java and only after that you can use it.